Transcript of the beginning of the meeting:

Vladimir Putin: I asked you to make a list of strategically important drugs that we need to manufacture in Russia, and if they aren't being manufactured yet we need to set the process on track. Please. I know that work on this document is practically finished. Just a few words about it.

Alexander Zhukov: The Ministry of Health and Social Development, in conjunction with the Ministry of Industry and Trade, has compiled a list of the strategically important drugs that are not manufactured in Russia today, but  these are extremely important medications used to treat the most widespread and serious diseases. 

As they are not manufactured in Russia today, they are, naturally, less available and less affordable to people. Included in this list are also some expensive medications that must be manufactured in this country. What medications are we speaking about?  These are medications to treat cancer, cardio-vascular diseases, hepatitis B and C, Gaucher's disease and multiple sclerosis. These are also brand-new antibiotics, antitumor, anti-inflammatory medications, anaesthetics and many others. All in all, the 57 most important medications are included on the final list. This list needs to be approved. I would like to add that all these medications have been included on the programme which aims to manufacture such medications in Russia and that they must become available in the next few years.

Vladimir Putin: It is not enough to make such a list. We must have these drugs manufactured in Russia.

Alexander Zhukov: These drugs are supposed to be manufactured in Russia by 2015.

Vladimir Putin: And why have they not been manufactured yet? What measures have been mapped out to make this happen? 

Alexander Zhukov: A special programme has been drafted to manufacture medications in the Russian Federation. The programme provides for incentives for Russian manufacturers and it also aims to bring in investment, including foreign investment from leading companies that are ready to manufacture such drugs in Russia.

Vladimir Putin: Good. My second question is about [the construction and renovation of] sports facilities, an issue that is handled by the Ministry of Sports and Youth Policy. Although some facilities are not included on the Federal Targeted Programme, they are considered to be important projects which need to be completed.

Alexander Zhukov: It has been suggested that more than one billion roubles in subsidies need to be appropriated to regions of the Russian Federation for the construction of the most important sports facilities. These are sports facilities which will not only be used by regions of the Russian Federation but also, among other things, to train Russian national teams. What is the main idea? Take, for example, the Olympic training centre for race walking in the Mordovian Republic. It is well known that our walkers - the best of them, including the Olympic champions in Beijing - are known to have been trained in this centre. The centre is funded by the republic. We appropriated 100 million roubles from the federal budget to complete its construction.

The track-and-field stadium in Ulan-Ude in Buryatia is used by the republic's residents and also to train the Olympic reserve. Another very important project is a facility that will be used as a platform to train athletes in downhill and cross-country skiing, and biathlon on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Weather conditions there allow athletes to compete and train at the time of year when there is practically no snow left elsewhere. I am speaking about a downhill skiing facility in Yelizovo. Or a multifunctional sports complex in Krasnodar for playing hockey and basketball - a major sports complex. And lastly, a practically new football stadium in Yaroslavl. The old stadium is being thoroughly renovated: almost 500 million roubles have been allocated for this project.

Vladimir Putin: What is its seating capacity?

Alexander Zhukov: 25,000.

Vladimir Putin: How much has been earmarked in total for all the projects?

Alexander Zhukov: More than one billion roubles, 1.59 billion roubles, to be precise, has been earmarked for all these projects. Of course, these are not all sports facilities - I have been talking about the projects, which we are subsidising with funds from the federal budget, adding them to the funds allocated by the regions of the Russian Federation.