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
"Russia needs to build a strong independent financial system. In this, we plan to make Russia an international financial centre, which envisages developing the banking system, the stock and commodity exchanges, streamlining the tax legislation concerning investments in the securities market. I have already stated that we decided to zero out the income tax for those who trade on the stock exchange".
"Today we have made the economy's innovation development our key task. Not only because the state and any government is obliged to improve the quality of life for its citizens - there is an underlying economic objective that prompts us to address these problems constantly and systematically. Since, as you have already stated, it is impossible to address innovation development problems without an educated specialist, a healthy person living in good conditions. It is our strategic goal. It is an essential, so to say, infrastructure requirement to develop innovations".
"As planned, we will aim at further decreasing economic pressure, trying to arrange economic activities to reduce the tax burden. This is our strategic choice".
"As far as general designers are concerned, unfortunately, we lack a permanent platform for dealing with people who generate all the main ideas. This concerns not only the aircraft industry but also other hi-tech sectors. I suppose that we should set up a council of general designers working in hi-tech sectors under the Prime Minister’s auspices".
"We have recently decided to merge numerous aircraft unit-and-component manufacturers with the Russian Technologies State Corporation (Rostekhnologii), whose managers must ensure that the national industry starts making inexpensive and up-to-date products".
"We will seek to reduce the tax burden. We will try to do it. But we must bear in mind that we face major challenges in reforming the socially sensitive sectors: public health, education and the pension system. All these reforms will involve considerable budget outlays because all these changes should enhance living standards and not lower them. So, budget expenditure will have to increase. That is why we must think about tax cuts, but we should tread warily".
"We set up a special fund for nanotechnologies. Some 180 billion roubles ($7.24 billion, or €5.01 billion) is planned for this sort of research work".
"The long-term national development concept stipulates the following key tasks: increasing average life expectancy to 75 years, stopping negative population growth; reducing mortality rates".
"We must overhaul the health care and pension systems, implement infrastructure development programmes and ensure Russia's rational integration into the global trade system. Economic growth is the only way to accomplish all these objectives. Labour productivity, a key parameter, should soar by 200%-300%".
"Our strategic goal is to ensure sustainable innovative development, to provide better educational and health-care opportunities, to improve the environment and to reliably guarantee the security of Russian citizens".
