Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with State Duma deputies from A Just Russia party
"Now we are facing new tasks. It is necessary to develop children's healthcare and pre-school education. The birth rate has gone up, and we do not have enough kindergartens. We should introduce new, higher standards for the production of food, and consider methods for protecting the younger generation from smoking, alcoholism, and drug addiction."
Mr Ivanov said that a centre was needed to coordinate operations in the area of high biomedical technologies.
Mr Sobyanin said that the Government would need to make serious efforts to implement the concept of long-term development through 2020 and the main directions for Government policy through 2012.
Events for 22 september 2008
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired the meeting of the Government’s Presidium
"I believe the country's financial authorities have reacted promptly to the situation in the global economy and taken measures that have definitely proved effective. The situation on the market has stabilised, as you know. In fact, the market has fully rehabilitated."
Events for 20 september 2008
"I should emphasise that there has been a strong foundation created to foster our business partnership; an effective cooperative structure has been formed; and that commodity turnover is on the rise. Measured at the end of the second half of 2008, the accumulated volume of direct investments from France equalled $1.7 billion. We endorse French investment in the Russian economy."
"More and more new French companies that come to the Russian market have long-term investment plans. Alstom, Alcatel, VINCI and many other French companies invest not only in the projects of the Moscow Region, but, as we have just heard at the meeting with businessmen, in many regions of Russian Federation."
