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.”
“When preping and approving new targeted programmes proceed from the real economic situation, selecting elements of the new programmes carefully, and trying to find the most rational and economically justified ways of implementing them.”
“I'd like to tell you that we have long set ourselves the goal of launching a commodities and raw materials exchange for trade in oil and oil products. We were planning to do this in St. Petersburg, and would like to discuss with you potential cooperation. Maybe, it makes sense to open a subsidiary of this exchange in Kazakhstan, say, in Alma Ata or Astana, or wherever you suggest. At any rate, the closer our cooperation here, the better it will be for both of us.”
"The transitional period of the final phase of RAO UES reorganisation must not cause interruptions in power supplies. Neither people nor the economy should suffer. Now the Energy Ministry is responsible for coordinating all relevant issues. In addition, the Government has set up the Federal Staff for Energy Supply. Similar bodies have been set up in the Russian regions."
"Organisations that enjoy special tax privileges will have their increased contribution rates compensated for by the federal budget. This reference is to small-business units operating in the high-technology sectors of the economy. I mean precisely them and want this to be clearly understood from the outset. This also refers to agricultural producers. They, too, will be given special treatment. And that rule will be in effect through the course of a five-year interim period. Within that time, these industries and these businesses ought to be able to adapt to the new system."
"All organisations, regardless of the industry they belong to, will have to adopt the new principles of contribution payment. As I said, business will certainly face extra costs following these changes. But I want to stress that simultaneous action will be taken to create mechanisms to avoid increasing the tax burden on business."
"Our goal in the coming years must be to improve the performance of the basic, fundamental branches of the Russian economy: transport, fuel, energy, banking, farming, and others. We must make serious progress in building a system of national innovation, promote competition, and create reliable guarantees of ownership rights. It is necessary to fully utilise these new factors of economic growth, above all those connected with human potential and its development."
"We have agreed to help the Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending by increasing its authorised capital by 60 billion roubles. We should do this anyway, whether there are problems in the global economy or not; we need to develop the mortgage system, and the Agency has long asked us to increase its authorised capital. We should do this along with appropriating the planned 250 billion roubles to make market operation more effective."
"The Russian Government and the Central Bank of Russia have adopted a block of measures to ensure Russia's economic stability. Considerable funds have been allocated to stabilise Russia's financial institutions, and a package of tax innovations has been formulated to continue to stimulate the economy."
"Taxation should play a more stimulating role, rather than merely serve as an instrument of securing the state's fiscal interests. Starting from 2009 corporate expenditure on education, health care and the housing problems of employees will be exempt from taxes. We have also extended the list of tax cuts for companies investing in research and development".
"Eliminating institutional obstacles to investment is an unqualified priority. We intend to get rid of the obsolete permit and control procedures involved in starting and developing a business. They must be replaced with mechanisms of self-regulation and responsibility".
