“I am confident that we are capable of reaching $60-$70 billion a year in foreign direct investment and achieving a positive balance between capital inflow and outflow in general.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with Astrakhan Region Governor Alexander Zhilkin
Governor Zhilkin told Mr Putin about a newly completed music theatre, as well as other cultural projects in Astrakhan. They also reviewed the region’s half-year performance in agriculture and housing construction. Additionally, they focused particular attention on programmes for modernising healthcare and education, emphasising the need to raise school teachers’ pay.
Events for 19 july 2011
“The Popular Front was established for the exact purpose of uniting people of different faiths and ethnicities so as to be able to identify the problems that are facing us and come up with the best ways to address them in an open and honest discussion.”
Events for 18 july 2011
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with Ulyanovsk Region Governor Sergei Morozov
Putin and Morozov talked about the region’s performance in the first six months of 2011, highlighting agriculture, housing and utilities, as well as modernisation of healthcare and education. The prime minister pointed out the need to raise teachers’ salaries to the country’s average.
Vladimir Putin and Vitaly Savelyev discussed the results of the airline’s performance in January-June 2011, short-term prospects and the renovation of its air fleet. They focused particularly on better consumer service.
Events for 15 july 2011
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin talks with workers at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works
“We need to expand the realm of possibilities open to public organisations and small parties, enabling them to put forward their representatives and their concepts for how the municipality, region or nation, and the relevant levels of power and management should develop. That is why I proposed that we establish the Popular Front, which has the potential to become just such a broad platform – where people can present their ideas as well as the people who generated these ideas, giving them the chance to advocate them via United Russia’s existing channels to these power structures.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with Chelyabinsk Region Governor Mikhail Yurevich
The prime minister and the governor discussed the performance of the Chelyabinsk Region in the first half of the year. Particular attention was paid to housing construction, problems with housing and utilities, and agriculture. They also discussed the modernisation of the healthcare system, the state of rural roads, courtyard beautification, and the situation with kindergartens in the region.
