Vladimir Putin gave an interview to Bloomberg news agency
"True, we have made economic diversification our goal only recently. On the whole, I think we have taken the right road and are reaching our targets at a fairly good pace. The global financial and economic crisis is helping us, in a sense, because it forces us to be more rational, implement new technologies (energy saving, for example), upgrade production and retrain the personnel."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Government Presidium
"Rosagroleasing capital is also increasing by 25 billion roubles, as agreed before. A greater part of the sum will go toward purchasing farm machines and vehicles, as we have intended, thus increasing sales of Russian-manufactured machinery."
Events for 26 january 2009
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Novgorod Region
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting at fertiliser producer Acron in Veliky Novgorod.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Regional Development Minister Viktor Basargin
Mr Putin and Mr Basargin discussed preliminary results of housing construction in 2008 and housing prices in the regions.
“The Government is constantly monitoring efforts to provide affordable financing to farming, fishing and logging,” Mr Zubkov said at a meeting at the Government House.
Events for 23 january 2009
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov
They discussed stabilisation on the labour market, notably the regional programmes to ease tensions on the labour market presented to the Government, as well as professional training, retraining and advanced training of personnel during these programmes.
The Commission members have noted that budget allocations for various types of support of small and medium enterprises (SME) as well as the loans to that sector from the Savings Bank of Russia, Vneshtorgbank, the Development Bank (VEB), and other banks with government participation have been increased.
