VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
"Today we are making a decision on considerably shortening the list of goods requiring mandatory certification. The percentage of items that must be certified will be decreased from 78% to 54%. Let me remind you that this percentage is even lower in European countries."
"We have compiled an exhaustive list of paid services required for filling out legal documents. This list has been more than halved to 19 paid services. Commercial companies can no longer serve as intermediaries in providing these services."
"We are directly prohibiting requiring individuals and companies to present any documents that are not envisaged by the regulations governing this or other public service. Officials guilty of violating this prohibition will be held responsible."
"Import replacement is not an end in itself. Sometimes it makes more sense to operate within an international division of labour getting cheap quality products from our partners abroad. But in some cases we should of course seek to replace imports because even in the areas that seem to be far removed from defence and security matters, in the final analysis, many things connected with the defence industry cross over into the civilian market. We cannot afford to ignore that."
"Our goal is not to close the domestic market and perpetuate backward technology, but, on the contrary, to create truly competitive production facilities which put out quality consumer goods that are in demand."
"We will be preparing appropriate solutions at the level of the federal government, and we will develop an exhaustive list of paid services that may be offered to our citizens. An exhaustive list. Everything else must be free. All intermediaries must be eliminated, so that no organisation can come between a citizen and a government authority, and so that no organisation will extort money from our citizens."
"I would like to repeat what has already been said more than once: Russia, like any other country - and I would like to stress this point - cannot be content with merely supplying primary raw materials to the world market. I am referring to all kinds of raw materials, be they hydrocarbons, bio-resources, or timber. Like any other country, Russia is interested in using its natural riches in the most effective and rational way. This is our strategic objective. We will tackle it by transforming our economy, making it less dependent on the export of commodities, and introducing advanced, innovative technologies."
"Any country - every country - in the world wants to reduce the volume of raw materials export and to increase the volume of processing in its own territory. Russia is not doing anything unusual in this respect - it simply wants to develop the country and its economy. Is this wrong? However, I would like to say again that we are not trying to attain this goal at somebody else's expense, which is why we are acting carefully, after notifying partners about our plans. Moreover, we make concessions to them on other issues."
“I'd like to repeat once again that without profound technical modernisation, development of new deposits, and investment activity we will find it difficult to compete on the world energy market.”
“It would be wrong to rely on budget funds alone to carry out the technological modernisation of the economy. We should encourage businesses to invest more in innovations, both independently and under public-private partnership.”
