”To address our major objectives effectively, we must use everything in our toolbox, including taxes, federal property and legal regulation. This approach will allow us to concentrate our resources on our main objectives, and increase the effectiveness of government spending by choosing the best solutions to overall and specific problems.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on map support for GLONASS
“The development of GLONASS is creating serious demand for new technology and modern intellectual products, <…> it is fundamentally changing the practice of economic management, increasing efficiency in transport, agriculture and even housing and utilities, and providing a wide range of popular services to the public. The system is becoming increasingly important in the sphere of security.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with cosmonauts in Star City
“What matters most is to breath new life into a programme that functions well, a programme that it is no exaggeration to describe as the pride of our country,” the Prime Minister said about the Cosmonaut Training Centre.
“Clearly this centre remains a unique facility. There are only three such facilities in the world. Our centre was essentially the first. It continues to play the same role and it still meets modern standards, without a doubt. But it is time to look toward the future.”
Events for 5 april 2010
“Our main objective must be the radical modernisation of defence production facilities. New Armed Forces are impossible without a new defence industry. We must do everything in our power to eliminate the dangerous disparity between the technological capacity of defence companies and the needs of the Armed Forces.”
