“The government is developing a business-friendly environment, and has already made several decisions to eliminate excessive administrative barriers and promote competitiveness. <… > The worst thing is that new barriers are constantly generated at various levels. Our officials seem to have an inherent need to control everyone and everything. Nevertheless, we’ll carry on with our effort to deal with these problems, and we’ll be very persistent in this.”
"This is a big investigation, in which many employees from different institutions of both countries are taking part. It should be duly coordinated to make sure that the circumstances of this crash are investigated without any bias and so that the public of our two countries finds out the truth about what happened."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with Kaluga Region Governor Anatoly Artamonov
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Kaluga Region Governor Anatoly Artamonov focused on industry, primarily the automobile industry. They also discussed wage arrears and unemployment. The governor said that the number of jobs available “considerably exceeds the number of job seekers.”
Events for 12 april 2010
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the Government Presidium
"A single formula should be used to calculate the cost of products sold in pharmacies: it should be the manufacturer’s sale price plus the retail mark-up, which is separately set by Russia’s regions. As the result, we have a price control system for essential medicines. Even though this refers to essential medicines, not all pharmaceutical products, it is a rather long list. Anyone found in breech of this pricing structure must be held to account."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with Head of the Federal Taxation Service Mikhail Mishustin
During the discussion tax collection in the first quarter of 2010 was summarized. The head of the taxation service said that 825 billion roubles in tax had been raised for the consolidated budgets of all levels of government, 32% higher than the same period in 2009.
