Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Resolution No 253 of March 24, 2009

On March 24, 2009, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Resolution No 253, endorsing the Rules of allocating funds in 2009 from the federal budget for the purchase of motor, refuse-collection and street-cleaning vehicles, and of distributing them among the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. He also decreed that 20,000,000 million roubles should be earmarked from the federal budget for these purposes in 2009.