Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with Regional Development Minister Viktor Basargin
“We promised people to provide housing to all of the veterans, including those who had not joined the waiting list by March 2005. We have said that we allocated considerable funds for this project, more than 80 billion roubles. But we first needed to prepare for the project to complete it as soon as possible.”
Events for 21 july 2010
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov
Vladimir Putin and Viktor Zubkov discussed the problems caused by the increasing number of regions affected by the drought. The prime minister instructed his deputy to “monitor the situation more closely” and to establish a task group that will monitor the situation week by week. They also pointed to the need for a comprehensive assessment of the damage done by the drought. Putin said that the faster this is done, the sooner the affected farms will receive assistance.
