Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the Government’s Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship
"Efforts to streamline the sphere of competition are called on to improve Russian economic patterns, to facilitate the more effective performance of its sectors and separate enterprises, to provide substantial incentives for reducing outlays and improving the quality of our goods and services and developing small and medium businesses."
“This is an ambitious goal,” he said. “However, we plan to attain it by increasing R&D expenditures to 3% of GDP in 2020 from 1.12% in 2007, and also by dramatically increasing the results attained by fundamental and applied research and design projects.”
“We have created a substantial budget stability and safety cushion. It will last for over three years,” Mr Kudrin said.
Events for 25 november 2008
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to St. Petersburg
On November 25 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Torfyanovka international transport crossing point on the Russian-Finnish border in the Leningrad Region and addressed the State Border Commission in St Petersburg. Prime Minister also visited the Vyborg Shipyard and had meetings with St Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko and with Leningrad Region’s Governor Valery Serdyukov.
The commission discussed preparations for its session in New Delhi, India on December 3, 2008. This session will focus on implementing a task set at top level – to increase bilateral trade to $10 billion by 2010.
First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov chaired a meeting on support of Russian retail networks
The meeting analysed the market situation, discussed various aspects of implementing the decisions taken at earlier government meetings. It also discussed steps to improve and monitor the sector.
