“Our goal is to improve living standards in the regions beyond the Urals and to make Siberia attractive to people, all within ten years. In fact, Siberia will need a new industrialisation plan to realise its competitive advantages.”
“This book is necessary. Without knowing what’s in these pages, it is impossible to have a complete understanding of our country and difficult to reflect on where it’s headed,” the prime minister told Natalya Solzhenitsyna.
Events for 25 october 2010
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the Government Presidium
“The important thing for us now is to support rural communities, to help them recover from the drought, carry out seasonal fieldwork and maintain their livestock numbers. We are introducing incentives, including bonuses to farms that manage to maintain their livestock numbers. We have allocated 5 billion roubles for this purpose.”
