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
“Support from Russian citizens has always helped us, and I’m confident that the government’s future line-up will rely on the people. We must never forget about the needs of ordinary people. We must always remember how government-level decisions influence the lives of all ordinary Russian citizens.”
“As for the Right Cause, I think that any legal party – any legal political force – may and should compete with its political rivals. Can it compete with United Russia as an equal? No, it cannot, at least for now. But I don’t rule out that this may change, and if the Right Cause proves to its voters that it has adopted the right approach to national development, it will win increasing support.”
“I want to stress this again – the development of small and medium-sized businesses has an undeniably tremendous significance for the country. This means new jobs and improving the efficiency and sustainability of the national economy and, ultimately, the well-being of millions of people, to build a strong middle class.”
“We intend to draw up a ranking of the most attractive regions from an investment standpoint every year. The ranking will be based on the number of jobs created, the number of new enterprises started, the amount of investments brought in. These objective figures ought to become one of the key criteria for assessing governors' performance. And I believe that we need to introduce such assessment criteria at the municipal level as well.”
“It is crucial to break the vicious circle where, in place of some eliminated barriers, other ones arise. Therefore, the Ministry of Economic Development must examine all the drafted legislation to assess the regulatory impact in the area of state monitoring and establish mandatory requirements for products, safety of production processes and conformity assessments.”
“The procedures for starting businesses and implementing investment projects have been simplified; the number of different inspections has been reduced; unlimited licenses as well as modern security systems and quality control systems (for goods and services) have been implemented; technical regulations and standards have been updated. We are steadily removing various administrative barriers. And it’s important that bureaucracy creates no new barriers. <…> We need an administrative culture alongside technological culture, we need to develop it, but this requires time and constant attention to these issues.”
“I suppose that expanded vocational education, primarily secondary and primary education, is a priority task facing the state and the business community. We must see to it that this kind of education meets the demands of modern production. We must renew the technical base for training specialists. <…> All of us need to work to raise the prestige of industrial careers and to enhance the public significance of skilled labour.”
“We must give priority to the development of all non-oil and gas sectors. I’d like to emphasise that I’m referring to the modern industry capable of producing the competitive products required in Russia (and primarily in Russia) and the rest of the world. This economy must be based on such basic market notions as profitability, demand and return on investment. Therefore, business, and in fact only business, can become the driving force of this project. The government can only help it by creating the right conditions.”
“We are setting ourselves an ambitious goal – to make Russia one of the world’s top five economies in a decade and to increase the GDP per capita from a little over $19,000 today to $35,000 and a bit more. The living standards of our people, as well as the quality of education and healthcare must be comparable to those in the leading world economies.”
“We must pave the way for thousands of new business ideas, companies and production facilities, so that new enterprises and production platforms grow quickly inside all non-oil and gas sectors. Consequently, we must do our best in order to enable everyone to bring to life his or her business and production dream here in Russia, so that it is profitable and comfortable to channel labour, efforts and investment into the new industrialisation.”
