Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Health and Social Development Minister Tatiana Golikova
"It is important that we all fulfill our obligations punctually. I am referring to birth certificates, assistance to mothers in raising children to a year and a half, and grants through the age of three. “Mother’s Capital” must then be kept within the agreed upon budget, and indexed regularly. We have every facility for doing that, despite any global financial crises."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov
"We have decided to set aside another 21 billion roubles for the Defence Ministry's housing programme. I am proceeding from the premise that this measure will help solve numerous social problems and will also support the national construction sector."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev
"In mid-2008, we decided to allocate another 50 billion roubles for the sector, including 30 billion roubles for the Agricultural Bank's statutory capital and 20 billion roubles to support farmers and implement various programmes involved with beef and dairy cattle-breeding, poultry-farming and fertiliser production."
The meeting discussed the preparation and organisation of the harvesting of water bioresources in 2009 in the light of the adoption of new rules of quota distribution.
Events for 14 october 2008
The meeting focused on the situation in the Chechen Republic after the earthquake, as well as disaster relief measures.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on supplying fuel to electrical power facilities
"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."
"As far as the Housing and Utilities Fund is concerned, it has been set up to achieve several objectives, the key of them is resettling people from dilapidating houses. I consider it possible to accelerate the allocation of additional subsidies to Russia's regions so that local authorities could provide new housing for those who live in dilapidated houses. It is important for us to urgently allocate these funds, two-years limit, totaling 50 billion roubles".
Events for 13 october 2008
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the Russian Government Presidium
"Liquidity is there but it often fails to reach the consumers. This is a problem for all financial systems. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that although we make decisions and allocate the required funds, they often fail to reach the end users. In this sense, Russia does not differ much from other countries. The only difference perhaps is that we have a real potential."
"In my opinion, the key task is to ensure the stability of Russia's banking system and to secure a sustained operation of Russian businesses. The Bank for Development (Vnesheconombank) will play one of the key roles in addressing this issue."
