Prime Minister Putin chairs a meeting on improving the environmental situation in Russia
"There is always a conflict between development and conservation. There always has been, and there always will be, but we need to strike a balance."
Events for 29 march 2011
The prime minister intended the meeting with Messrs Zhirinovsky and Lebedev to be the first in a series of preliminary consultations with the leaders of different political factions in the Duma in anticipation of the government’s 2010 report to parliament. “I would like to hear your opinions and make the necessary changes to the report I am going to make in parliament,” he said.
“In making these decisions, we must above all proceed from the necessity of fulfilling our social commitments to our citizens.”
