Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the Russian Government Presidium
“Today I signed all the documents necessary to submit the draft federal budget for 2011 and two following years to the State Duma. This marks the completion of a long and important phase in the process of drafting the country’s main financial and economic document for next year. <…> The new budget will give a start to two breakthrough programmes for the modernisation of local healthcare infrastructure and large-scale road construction using the resources of road funds.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a meeting of the Supervisory Board of Vnesheconombank
“In the Strategy for the North Caucasus Federal District we have set ourselves a series of tasks. The most important of them is to help elevate this region…To achieve this, a large investment is needed in the North Caucasus – tens and even hundreds of billions of roubles in public and private investments.”