“A great deal will depend on how our agencies, their chief executives and other top and middle-level managers carry out our instructions. (…) In this regard I would like to say that we also intend to introduce special mechanisms for evaluating the work of government institutions.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with Viktor Khristenko and Denis Manturov
The participants in the meeting discussed Viktor Khristenko’s appointment as Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission, prospects for further integration in the post-soviet space, and the Ministry of Industry and Trade promotion of Denis Manturov, whom the prime minister asked to carry on as the acting minister.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attends the Russia 2012 investment forum
“All reforms should be based on people and their inner desire to improve our country. This was the case in the 2000s when we brought Russia together, and I’m sure this will happen again today at this whole new level of our development. I’m confident that the energy of a civil society, primarily of its creative class, will become the main driving force behind Russia’s future prosperity.”
Vladimir Putin thanked Patriarch Kirill for his enormous contribution to strengthening the spiritual foundation of Russian society and relations with other churches, which the prime minister called one of the “major elements” of Russia’s foreign policy, particularly in post-Soviet republics.