Prime Minister Putin and the head of the Komi Republic, Vyacheslav Gaizer, have discussed the republic’s performance in the first six months of 2010. Mr Gaizer has noted stable positive trends in the public services and the economy, and emphasised that inflation has been lower in his republic than across the country and that the demographic situation has been improving, primarily due to the government’s social support programmes. However, there has also been a modest decline in oil production in the republic.
