30 july 2009

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a Government meeting

Vladimir Putin

At a Government meeting

Participants:
“Today we are drafting the budget in the complicated conditions of a global economic crisis. Of course, we must take this into account. Since there are many elements of uncertainty, it is very difficult, and sometimes impossible, to plan a three-year budget in detail. But it would be unwise to abandon the system of medium-term budget planning.”