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
"Without a strong, cutting-edge machinery manufacturing industry Russian economy will never be full-fledged, competitive and based on innovations, will never overcome its excessive dependence on raw materials. That was why we made decisions to develop and upgrade the industry even before the crisis. We have established major integrated shipbuilding, aircraft-building and military industrial companies."
"The automotive industry ended up being one of the sectors hit the hardest by the economic crisis. Sales of new cars dropped significantly not only in Russia, but all over the world. Only now have markets in individual countries started to recover.<.....> The transition to modern standards must be gradual. Russian auto plants must have enough time to upgrade their manufacturing capabilities and technology. And of course consumers have to be ready for this."
"Regarding imports, as I've already said many times, we will strive to have all import vehicles fully meet Russian standards. The new set of technical regulations is based on these specific principles, and I hope that its coming into effect will allow, among other things, improved traffic safety on our roads."
"Despite certain economic difficulties, we have kept our space projects on the budget priority list. This year alone almost 82 billion roubles have been appropriated for these projects under three federal programmes. Let me specify that these allocations amount to 58.2 billion roubles under the Federal Space Programme, another 15.3 billion roubles under the federal targeted programme GLONASS Global Navigation System, and yet another 8.2 billion roubles under the federal targeted programme on developing Russia's defence and industrial complex in 2007-2010 and beyond. Thus, the total is 81.7 billion roubles."
"The Government has adopted a number of anti-crisis measures to stabilise the financial position of the industry's individual companies. I am referring to additional capitalisation, and the granting of state guarantees and subsidies. A total of eight billion roubles have been allotted to the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre, and state guarantees worth three billion roubles have been granted to the Energomash Joint Stock Company. The Government has also made decisions on granting subsidies to a number of other organisations of this industry."
"Let me recall that our strategic goals in this respect are to make the domestic space industry more competitive, and to more effectively use its potential both for resolving domestic socio-economic tasks, and for entering high-tech international markets. Obviously, we should not forget the industry's role in our defence capability. Defence-related projects amount to 63% of what is being done in the missile and space industry."
"At the same time, apart from budgetary funds, we must create the conditions for attracting private investment into our water management complex. The expenditures required for implementing the strategy, which we are going to review today, will add up to about 662 billion roubles in the period up to 2020. About 500 billion roubles will come from the federal budget; the regions will not contribute much, while extra-budget funds will amount to a mere 66.9 billion roubles. In general, this sphere may be quite attractive for private investment as well."
"The recent tragic events at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant have made it perfectly obvious how much we still have to do to increase the reliability of technical structures in general, and hydro-technical facilities in particular. We must conduct a thorough inspection of all strategic and vital installations of the infrastructure and work out a procedure for their regular modernisation and monitoring over their technical condition. By and large, we must fundamentally improve technological discipline in industry and other branches of the economy."
"In recent years, we have made a number of achievements. Water losses during transportation have decreased by 6.3%, while sewage dumping has been reduced by 9%. The introduction of the closed cycle technology has increased the reuse of water by 6.5%. The quality of water, including that from drinking water sources, has improved. The water-holding capacity of our GDP has been reduced, although we are still behind many countries in this respect."
"We are witnessing the establishment of key elements of the national nanotech network, which includes publicly accessible research centres. Therefore, I think it expedient to extend the term of the federal targeted programme Infrastructure Development for the Nanotechnology Industry for another year, that is, through the end of 2011."
