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 can’t forget about social issues, such as teacher pay, particularly per capita financing, which we’ve been talking about a lot in recent years. Whenever and wherever this system is introduced, it results in higher pay for teachers. <…> In Omsk, Pskov and Kaliningrad we are seeing salaries go up by about 25%, and in some cases by 40%.”
“Steps have been taken lately to develop the education system as part of the national project Education. I think that a great deal has been done.However, whenever there is a large-scale project, there are typically more problems that we haven’t solved than ones that we have. This is to be expected. It is a natural part of the process. In higher education, we are counting on the strong, and I believe that it is the proper approach. We are setting up a network of national federal universities and research universities, and will earmark additional funding for them.”
“Five years ago we launched the priority national project Health, which has proved to be very effective, showing that good results can be achieved if we concentrate financial and administrative resources on high-priority issues. We mentioned several figures today that support this. This national project has paved the way for the next step in this critical area of government activity, the modernisation of the Russian healthcare system.”
“It is necessary to remove excessive paperwork in relations between the doctor and patient and to have the doctor focused on the treatment of the patient, instead of on filling out numerous forms and certificates. Modern information technology has to be applied for this purpose. What I mean is clear to everybody: telemedicine, electronic paperwork and electronic medical records. It is necessary to give people the opportunity to make a doctor’s appointment online, without having to leave the house.”
"Since 2000, Russia’s arms exports have grown by almost 150%. They have also expanded geographically. Today we are cooperating with 85 countries of the world. I would like to emphasize that Rosoboronexport’s activity, like Russia’s military-technological cooperation in general, is proceeding in strict conformity with Russian legislation and international law as well as with the non-proliferation regimes now in effect. We fully consider all potential risks for security in the regions where we are exporting arms and are very careful to the established balance of forces there. We never take action that could upset such a balance."
"We have a programme of incentives for creating jobs for people with disabilities. This year the government is paying 30,000 roubles to employers for each new job. We will continue this programme and further increase the bonus. Employers will receive 50,000 roubles for each new job next year. While we were implementing our anti-crisis measures, I noted that when decisions were being made to reduce production costs, jobs for disabled people were the first to be cut. But this is only one example. I'd like to send the message to executives at all levels that such practices are inadmissible."
"In general, Russia’s foreign trade has been growing at a satisfactory pace this year. Russia’s trade with key partners, actually with all of our trading partners, currently totals $400 billion, up 40% from last year. Obviously, trade within the CIS remains our priority; however, our trade with Eurozone countries, as is well known, is also growing. EU partners currently account for over 50% of Russia’s foreign trade. We are also actively cooperating with the BRIC countries – China, India and Brazil. We are building relations with Latin American countries, and trade with countries of the Asia-Pacific region is on the rise."
"The Russian government has invested a decent amount of money into AvtoVAZ: 75 billion roubles. In addition, we have continued the programme for exchanging used cars, and AvtoVAZ is also receiving a substantial amount of money under this programme. We have allocated several billion roubles to decrease the burden the company bears in dealing with social issues: four billion roubles. And all of this has yielded results."
“We have already implemented serious measures: we have allocated about 40 billion roubles from the federal budget to agro-industrial companies, rescheduled loans and leases and extended the terms of interest subsidies to three years, as you know. <…> I would like to remind you that we subsidise agro-industrial businesses from the federal budget to purchase fertilisers. I propose to earmark no less than a billion roubles for that purpose next year to make total subsidies for fertiliser purchases approach 5.5 billion roubles.”
