The conference participants discussed the relocation of people from dilapidated housing at the Korkinsky open pit mine in the Chelyabinsk Region. Putin said that the government had allocated 2 billion roubles for the emergency relocation. He also criticised the government of Udmurtia for failing to promptly repair housing and other facilities in the republic damaged during the explosions at a nearby military depot last year.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Yury Trutnev
Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Yury Trutnev presented to Vladimir Putin the first sample of pre-historic water obtained by a Russian polar expedition from an ice-covered lake in the Antarctic. The water may be more than one million years old. The prime minister referred to this as a great event and suggested thinking of how to recognise the members of the expedition.
“The national business initiative signifies an entirely new approach to the formation of a business environment in which not officials but business itself, the main user of its services, sets demands for the participants in the process. We must charge officials with an obligation to fulfill these requirements efficiently rather than just on paper.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a Government Presidium meeting
“Negative developments, which, doubtless, exist everywhere, including the internet, should not be used as a pretext for curbing online freedom. To prevent this from happening and to enable society to shield itself from these negative developments, all actions in this effort should be transparent. They should be undertaken and worked out together with the online community.”