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.”
“We have ever more opportunities together with our Norwegian partners. I am referring to delimitation agreement in the North. The decisions taken at the political level should proceed to the stage of commercial implementation.”
“Construction investment projects in Russia remain one of the most complex problems in the world. The number and duration of Russian licensing procedures is unfortunately greater and longer than in other countries. According to the data of international organisations, a Russian license requires 53 procedures or 540 days, while an average OECD license requires 16 procedures or 166 days. The difference is clear.»
“I’d like to focus on one more issue on the agenda, which is an extended term of technical conditions for connecting to the utility facilities of new residential buildings. <…>It is necessary to maximally simplify the existing procedures and rules at every stage, from the registration of a land plot as a building site, approval of a project, to the connection of a new home to the utility facilities. I mean the whole range of issues connected with simplification and lifting of administrative barriers in construction.”
“Today we will discuss amendments to the law that will simplify access of this associated gas to gas pipeline systems. We have an extremely important objective: it is clearly unacceptable to undermine the options and economic opportunities of major gas producers, but it is necessary to use the associated gas, too.”
“I would like to say that 170 billion roubles will be allocated from the federal budget to support the agro-industrial complex in 2012. A portion of this amount – 136 billion – will be used to carry out the state programme for promoting agriculture in Russia. Our goal is to use these funds with maximum effectiveness, have our agricultural producers strengthen their positions and make the agricultural industry one of Russia’s leading economic drivers.”
“According to expert estimates, winter crops are in normal condition. This is a good foundation for the future harvest. Now we should effectively conduct the spring sowing campaign and prepare properly for harvesting grain.”
“As before, agricultural producers will buy fuel at reduced prices. This support measure has a very good track record. Of course, it benefits greatly our agricultural producers. <…> We agreed that wholesale fuel and lubricants prices established in each particular region on December 31, 2011, will be discounted by another 30 percent.”
“On the whole, the agriculture support programme will continue. Now, as you know, we are developing a state programme of agricultural development, and it will provide for financial issues, agricultural equipment development issues, agricultural equipment leasing issues and issues of social development of rural areas.”
“In recent years the situation in agriculture has radically changed. <…> This country (I mean the Soviet Union) had always been a net importer of wheat and cereals, and now we have become the world's third largest exporter following the United States and Canada; our country has definitively gained the third position in the world.”
