The following issues are scheduled for discussion at the Government meeting on April 9, 2009:
1. The draft anti-crisis programme of the Russian Federation's Government for 2009
2. Implementing measures to improve the financial and some economic sectors
I. The Action Plan is the main, comprehensive document stipulating anti-crisis measures to improve the financial and specific economic sectors.
The Action Plan stipulates 55 measures. As of March 27, 2009, 39 of the Action Plan's provisions had been implemented. Notably, 17 federal laws had been passed. The relevant regulatory documents regarding seven of the Action Plan's provisions have been submitted to the Government for consideration.
In March 2009, decisions to maintain the financial stability of legal entities and commercial banks were adopted. Measures to facilitate employment in the Russian Federation's constituent entities continued. The Government also received draft regulatory documents facilitating leasing operations during state purchases and the renting of federally-owned real estate to small and medium business.
1) The Government's March 29, 2008 resolution No. 227 The Procedure for Depositing Federal-Budget Allocations at Banks facilitates the transfer of spare federal-budget allocations to commercial-bank deposits.
2) A number of regulatory documents to streamline customs-tariffs regulation have been approved.
The approval of permanent zero polyester-thread import duties (See the Government's resolution No. 197 dated March 10, 2009) will facilitate the sustained performance of Russian companies and will make it possible to expand production of import-substituting products in the years to come.
The Government's March 10, 2009 resolution No. 211 On Amending Government Resolution No. 732 Dated December 5, 2005 specifies the allocation of tariff quotas for the 2009 period minus 25% of tariff quotas allocated in December 2008.
3) In line with Federal Law No. 204-FZ dated November 24, 2009, the Government issued resolution No. 205 on March 10, 2009, Approving Regulations for Allocating Federal-Budget Subsidies to Russia's Farm-Equipment and Tractor Manufacturers, Timber-Industry Enterprises, Oil and Gas Equipment and Machine-Tool Manufacturers Throughout 2009-2011 to Compensate Part of the Expenses Incurred During Payment of Interest on Production-Modernisation Loans Taken Out at Russian Credit Institutions For a Period of up to Five Years.
4) In March 2009, federal executive-power agencies and those of the Russian Federation's constituent entities continued efforts to facilitate employment.
Under the Government resolution No. 1089 dated December 31, 2008, the budgets of the Russian Federation's constituent entities receive federal-budget subsidies for implementing additional measures to reduce pressure on regional labour markets. Moreover, the constituent entities will draft regional programmes to reduce pressure on regional labour markets.
There are plans to disburse federal-budget allocations worth over 43.7 billion roubles through 2009 to facilitate employment and to provide social security to workers facing possible layoffs. These allocations will be used to:
- facilitate ahead-of-schedule vocational training to improve workforce quality, professionalism, professional mobility and competitiveness;
- organise public works and create part-time jobs enabling young specialists to gain on-the-job experience. Public works and the creation of part-time jobs aim to implement socially important projects at the municipal and district levels;
- relocate unemployed to fill vacancies in other regions, including jobs being created under federal target programmes and investment projects;
- promote small businesses and the self-employment of the unemployed.
Regional programmes to reduce pressure on regional labour markets aim to accomplish the following objectives:
- implementing ahead-of-schedule vocational-training, retraining and advanced-training programmes for over 173,400 corporate workers facing possible layoffs. The constituent entities will receive about 1.593 billion roubles for this purpose;
- creating over 947,100 part-time jobs for workers facing possible layoffs and providing advanced training for 20,700 individuals. Russian regions will receive about 18,938 18.938 billion roubles for this purpose;
- providing material support for business start-ups for at least 56,700 individuals who, apart from self-employment, will create at least 150,000 jobs in small business. Russian regions will receive about 2.7 billion roubles for promoting small businesses and the self-employment of the unemployed;
- providing selective financial support to at least 15,000 individuals relocating to other districts on the territory of a region or outside it to fill permanent or temporary vacancies at enterprises experiencing workforce shortages. Russian regions will receive about 882.5 million roubles for this purpose.
Regional employment programmes will limit 2009 work-permit quotas to 450,229.
All constituent entities have drafted regional programmes to reduce pressure on regional labour markets.
As of March 23, 2009, the Inter-Departmental Working Group of the Russian Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development had reviewed 82 regional programmes, including 79 programmes approved by the Government's Inter-Departmental Working Group to Monitor the Labour Market. This was done at select regional programmes that will receive federal-budget subsidies to implement additional measures aimed at reducing pressure on regional labour markets.
There are plans to allocate a total of 25.1 billion roubles to implement regional employment programmes.
II. The Government is drafting and implementing additional anti-crisis measures to facilitate economic development and to support the leading sectors most affected by financial-market fluctuation plus aggravated bank-loan terms to solve specific problems of economic-sector development and to fine-tune state-support measures with regard to any specific sector. Such measures will make it possible to maintain maximum economic growth during the global financial crisis.
1) The bill on amending the Federal Law On the 2009 Federal Budget and the 2010-2011 Planning Period stipulates budgetary allocations for implementing new federal expenses worth a billion roubles to reimburse a portion of Russian leasing companies' interest expenses on loans from Russian credit institutions in 2009 to finance the leasing of Russian-made equipment. This is being done to facilitate the credit lines of the leasing divisions of automakers who lease Russian-made vehicles.
2) There are plans to establish a specialised leasing company with statutory capital of up to 40 billion roubles for purchasing motor vehicles and road-construction equipment assembled in Russia.
The Ministry of Finance has submitted a draft federal law on amending the federal law on the 2009 federal budget and the 2010-2011 planning period. The document calls for redistributing budget funds for the sub-programme Automobile Roads of the federal targeted programme Overhauling the Russian Transport Network in 2002-2010, as well as provides for a three-billion-rouble contribution to the State Transport Leasing Company's statutory capital.
The Government has approved resolution No. 93 dated February 4, 2009 authorising the Russian Ministry of Transport to exercise the rights of the State Transport Leasing Company's shareholders on behalf of the Russian Federation.
The Transport Ministry has been instructed to submit proposals on contributing 10 billion roubles to the State Transport Leasing Company's statutory capital, including seven billion roubles through the redistribution of federal-budget allocations to the Transport Ministry, to the Government for consideration.
3) There are plans to fully compensate transport monopoly Russian Railways for expenses incurred during the transportation of Russian-made motor vehicles to the Far Eastern Federal District and to formalise the procedure for paying such compensation. This applies to new cars being distributed by their manufacturers.
Budgetary allocations for the above are stipulated under Article 25, point 6 of the Federal Law On the Federal Budget for 2009 and the 2010-2011 Planning Period.
Government resolution No. 194 Transporting New Passenger Cars Manufactured on the Territory of the Russian Federation by Russian Railways to Terminals Located in the Territory of the Far Eastern Federal District dated March 4, 2009 stipulates the relevant regulations for providing subsidies to Russian Railways and lists vehicles eligible for tariff free transportation.
4) There are plans to amend the 2009 federal budget to subsidise the expenses of timber-industry enterprises to pay interest on loans taken from Russian credit institutions for purchasing timber, raw-materials and fuel. All in all, 325 million roubles have been allocated to subsidise interest on loans for timber-industry enterprises.
5) On March 10, 2009, the Government issued resolution No. 205 On Approving Regulations for Allocating Federal-Budget Subsidies to Russia's Farm-Equipment and Tractor Manufacturers, Timber-Industry Enterprises, Oil and Gas Equipment and Machine-Tool Manufacturers Throughout 2009-2011 in Order to Compensate Part of the Expenses Incurred During Payment of Interest on Production-Modernisation Loans Taken Out at Russian Credit Institutions for a Period of up to Five Years.
There are plans to issue an additional 15 billion roubles in subsidies to organisations fulfilling state defence contracts and three billion roubles in bankruptcy-prevention subsidies.
III. The Government Commission on Sustained Development of the Russian Economy was established under resolution No. 957 dated December 15, 2008 to authorise permanent control over decisions to improve the financial and other specific economic sectors, to facilitate comprehensive analysis and to plan guidelines for economic sectors' subsequent development (hereinafter referred to as Commission).
In March 2009, the Commission examined the following issues at its meetings:
- consumer staple-food prices;
- provision of a variety of affordable medicines for public use;
- proposals to promote the economic stability of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Khrunichev State Research And Production Space Centre.
The Commission instructed the concerned parties to prepare procedural recommendations for agreements between agricultural producers, processing enterprises and trade organisations (their associations) and to draft provisions stipulating easier access of Russian agricultural producers to the services of retail and wholesale trade chains.
The Commission instructed the concerned parties to draft regulatory documents to streamline state regulation of pharmaceutical prices under the List of Vital and Most Important Medications to expedite the provision of medications and to introduce limits for wholesale and retail price markup by licensed wholesalers and retailers into the licensing requirements of these pharmaceutical activities.
Issues of supporting specific enterprises are examined during work with strategic organisations the list of which was approved by the December 23, 2008 decision of the Government Commission on Sustained Development of the Russian Economy and which includes 295 organisations. Under the Commission's December 23, 2008 decision, a working group to monitor the financial-economic status of organisations on the list, hereinafter referred to as the working group, was established.
The working group has the following tasks:
- monitor the financial-economic status of strategic and backbone enterprises;
- facilitate cooperation between federal executive-power agencies and those of the Russian Federation's constituent entities regarding support for strategic and backbone enterprises;
- use monitored data to prepare proposals on a range of measures to stabilise the financial-economic status of strategic enterprises;
- prepare proposals to specify the list of strategic enterprises for examination at the Commission's meetings.
A list of 1,148 enterprises important to the economies of constituent entities and municipalities (regional-level enterprises) was compiled on the basis of proposals of some federal executive-power agencies and those of the Russian Federation's constituent entities and subsequently approved at the Commission's February 24, 2009 meeting.
On March 20, 2009, the Minister of Regional Development issued his order No. 64 approving Regulations on Facilitating the Monitoring of the Financial-Economic Status of Enterprises Having Regional Importance, hereinafter referred to as Regulations, that also sets forth the relevant procedure for drafting and examining proposals regarding measures to facilitate the stable financial-economic status of enterprises having regional importance.
The Ministry of Regional Development has sent letters to the Russian Federation's constituent entities, asking them to submit proposals concerning state-support from federal executive-power agencies, including those at the expense of the federal budget, with regard to local backbone enterprises and enterprises employing over 2% of a locality's population, provided that its population exceeds 100,000.
The Ministry of Regional Development will submit proposals and findings to the Inter-Departmental Working Group for Monitoring the Financial-Economic Status of Strategic Enterprises on the basis of findings of the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development and the federal executive-power agency overseeing the relevant economic sector.
On December 31, 2008, the Ministry of Industry and Trade issued its order No. 485 establishing the Government Commission on Sustained Development of Industry and Trade.
The Commission's proposals stipulating state-support measures for enterprises aim to accomplish the following objectives:
- extending or refinancing current loans for corporate working capital;
- providing state guarantees for commercial-bank loans;
- assisting the issue of loans, including eased term loans, for investment projects;
- compensating loan interest;
- increasing corporate statutory capital;
- reducing social pressure during layoffs by organising public works and retraining courses for employment purposes, etc.
The Commission's recommendations to promote sustainable development of industry and trade will be submitted to the Inter-Departmental Working Group for Monitoring the Financial-Economic Status of Strategic Enterprises for subsequent examination.
3. Draft investment programmes for the electric power generating industry for 2009 and the 2010-2011 planning period
Draft investment programmes and plans for electric power generating companies for 2009 and the 2010-2011 planning period, submitted by the Ministry of Energy, were formulated in line with the following factors:
- a modified electric power consumption forecast envisioning a 4.5% nationwide drop in 2009 with a subsequent increase in energy demand by 0.1%, 1.5% and 3% in 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively;
- construction of facilities for the 22nd Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014 and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Vladivostok in 2012;
- the need to streamline 2009 budgetary spending, reduced by an average of 30% in line with financing quotas stipulated by the Ministry of Finance.
Modified investment programmes have taken into account limited and decreasing private investor resources in funding investment projects. Notably, United Company RUSAL (UC RUSAL) is building an integrated Boguchany hydroelectric power plant and smelter (Boguchany Energy Metals Project, or BEMO) in the Krasnoyarsk Region in East Siberia. The programmes also took into account private wholesale and territorial generating companies and the possibility of reducing energy-company investment outlays by an average of 10-20%.
Modified draft investment programmes for electric power companies for the 2009-2011 period plan to commission 5,850 mWt worth of power-generating facilities, 33,935 km of power-transmission lines and 55,895 megavolt-ampere transformers, including 2,030 mWt of power-generating facilities, 9,887 km of power-transmission lines and 17,007 megavolt-ampere transformers throughout 2009.
Hydroelectric plants will account for 33% (1.9 gigawatts) of power-generating facilities, scheduled to be commissioned in 2009-2011. The share of nuclear power plants and thermal power plants will be 34% (2 gigawatts) and 33% (1.9 gigawatts), respectively.
Assets listed in tariffs, namely, depreciation deductions and target investment allocations (174 million roubles, or 32% of the grand total), budgetary allocations (134 million roubles, or about 24% of the grand total), connecting payments (64 million roubles, or 12%, for the Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System, the Inter-Regional Distribution Grid Company and the Eastern Power Grid), loans, namely, 58 billion roubles (10.5%), funding derived from the sale of assets formerly owned by utility giant Unified Energy System, namely, 52 billion roubles (9.5%), other corporate and borrowed assets, including profits, the repayment of value-added tax, private investment and other funding, about 40 billion roubles, are the main sources of funding investment programmes for power-generating companies co-owned by the Russian Federation.
The investment programme of the Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System for the 2009-2011 period stipulates construction of over 6,300 km of power-transmission lines and the commissioning of 32,700 megavolt ampere transformers, including 1,508 km of power-transmission lines and 9,608 megavolt ampere transformers in 2009. The programme stipulates construction of power-transmission facilities and facilities for the federal targeted programme Economic and Social Development of Russia's Far East and the Trans-Baikal Area Until 2013, facilities enhancing power-transmission reliability in Moscow, St Petersburg and Tyumen, facilities listed in agreements with other regional administrations, a programme for expanding power networks in the Sochi area, construction of NPP transmission facilities, East Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline (VSTO), the Baltic Transportation System (BTS-2) oil pipeline and power-supply facilities for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
The investment programme of the Inter-Regional Distribution Grid Company for the 2009-2011 period stipulates construction of 27,500 km of power-transmission lines and the commissioning of 22,200 megavolt ampere transformers, including 7,441 km of power-transmission lines and 6,912 megavolt ampere transformers in 2009. The programme stipulates construction and reconstruction of power-distribution networks in the Russian Federation's regions, as well as construction of power-supply facilities for the 22nd Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, the implementation of a programme for the low-cost connection of small and medium-sized businesses (up to 15kWt and 100 kWt, respectively) and construction of power-supply facilities for oil-pumping stations on the oil pipeline, Baltic Transportation System (BTS-2).
The investment programme of the Eastern Power Grid for the 2009-2011 period plans to commission 285 mWt worth of power-generating facilities and stipulates construction of 2,094 km of power-transmission lines and 1,009 megavolt ampere transformers, including 221 mWt worth of power-generating facilities, 938 km of power-transmission lines and 487 megavolt ampere transformers in 2009. The programme stipulates construction of the Sovgavanskaya thermal power plant, Sakhalin state regional power plant No 2, the Blagoveshchensk thermal power plant, an update of local power-supply networks and other projects, including construction of power-supply facilities for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
The investment programme of Generating Company No 1 for the 2009-2011 period plans to commission 780 mWt worth of power-generating facilities, including the Kashira state regional power plant, whose No. 3 power unit is scheduled to be commissioned in 2009 and the 450-mWt Urengoi state regional power plant. There are also plans to build the Nizhnevartovsk state regional power plant's No. 3 power unit.
The RusHydro investment programme for the 2009-2011 period aims to commission 1,930 mWt worth of power-generating facilities, including the 1,667-mWt Boguchany Energy Metals Project, or BEMO, the 35-mWt Bureya hydroelectric power plant, the 15-mWt Zaramag hydroelectric power plant and the 65-mWt Kashkhatau hydroelectric power plant. There are plans to commission 74 mWt worth of power-generating facilities, including the Zaramag hydropower plant, through 2009, and to complete the Bureya hydroelectric power plant.
The investment programme of the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom for the 2009-2011 period will commission 2,000 mWt worth of power-generating facilities, including the Volgodonsk NPP's No. 2 unit in 2009 and the Kalinin NPP's No. 4 unit in 2011, and to extend the service life of first-generation and second-generation reactors. The company also plans to implement investment projects at facilities handling irradiated nuclear fuel and radioactive waste, to overhaul operational enterprises, etc.
The investment programme of Russian electricity exporter-importer INTER RAO UES for the 2009-2011 period aims to commission 855 mWt worth of power-generating facilities, including 405 mWt in 2009, to expand the Sochi thermal power plant, to overhaul the Ivanovo state regional power plant by installing two steam-turbine generators and to build the Kaliningrad thermal power plant No. 2, namely, the start-up centre of its 450 mWt No. 2 power unit/steam-turbine generator.
The investment programme of grid operator OAO SO UES for the 2009-2011 period plans to streamline payments and settlements and the methods used for analysing and regulating electric-energy modes, as well as those for supporting trade procedures, market monitoring and accounting, enhancing the reliability of dispatch-control centres, the emergency dispatch-control network, etc.
4. The main principles for streamlining state regulation of trade activity and expanding trade in the Russian Federation throughout 2009
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has submitted materials on streamlining state regulation of trade activity and expanding trade in the Russian Federation throughout 2009 to the Government for consideration.
1) The consequences of the global financial crisis have affected the state of the Russian consumer market and the development of the national retail-trade network.
Declining solvent retail demand and consumer-goods sales increment have been caused by a decline in the real income of the population, by consumer loans and by growing prices.
Although the 2007 and 2008 retail trade turnover increased by 16.1% and 13% over 2006 and 2007, respectively, the sales-volume increment declined in the third quarter of 2008 and totalled just 4.8% in December 2008 and 3.1% in January 2009. This February, the retail trade turnover dropped by 2.4% on February 2008 for the first time in ten years.
Projected risks regarding the consumer-market and trade trends in 2009 are linked with declining consumer demand, growing popularity of low-nutrition foodstuffs, declining sales of consumer durables, rising prices for imported goods and Russian goods with high import-substitute content.
The main obstacles to the normal operation of trade companies include the lack of working capital and less affordable loans, including long-term loans, curtailed investment programmes that provide trade services to the population and job cuts in the trade sector.
The lack of proper trade facilities seriously hinders competition in the trade sector, limiting the access of consumer-goods producers/suppliers, primarily those of foodstuffs, to trade chains and forcing trade companies to stipulate discriminatory terms during the signing of retail-sale contracts.
2) The Ministry of Industry and Trade and the concerned federal executive-power agencies have drafted measures to streamline state regulation of trade activity to promote such activity and to formulate a cost-effective national trade policy for 2009. The objective is to overcome negative trade trends and to facilitate the trade sector's sustained development in conditions of economic crisis.
Measures include the drafting of a trade-development strategy through 2015 and the regulation of trade activity, the protection of consumer rights, the promotion of competition and the cooperation between agricultural producers and trade chains and the expansion of the sector's personnel-training system.
Notably, there are plans to finish drafting a federal law on the main principles of state regulation of trade activity and to draft bills on amending federal laws regulating alcohol production and circulation, as well as food quality and safety, to expedite such trade.
There are plans to establish inter-departmental coordinating councils for trade-expansion and consumer-rights protection at the federal and regional level to enhance cooperation between federal executive-power agencies and those of the constituent entities and their coordinated efforts in trade expansion and consumer-rights protection.
Measures to analyze the pricing system in food production and sales and to promote updated trade logistics are stipulated.
3) Previously, the Government issued instructions, now in different stages of implementation, on facilitating trade during the crisis, including the following:
- loan support for major companies selling foodstuffs;
- trade-chain companies must take action to prevent the trade turnover from declining, to curb retail prices, to reduce retail trade credit;
- drafting cooperation rules between agricultural producers, processing enterprises and trade organisations to form mutually beneficial relations and economically justified production and sales prices;
- state support for small business, including trade companies.
Moreover, several issues in the following areas must be resolved to facilitate sustained development of trade in 2009:
- price control and other mechanisms to curb staple-goods pricing;
- the well-balanced development of various forms of retail trade, primarily agricultural produce sales;
- expanding the wholesale-trade infrastructure;
- creating trade-competition incentives, stepping up control over violations of anti-monopoly legislation in the activities of trading companies;
- drafting and implementing modern requirements for the infrastructure of trade facilities and the professional requirements for relevant personnel;
- demarcating the prerogatives of federal executive-power agencies, those of the Russian Federation's constituent entities and local governments in trade activity.
Considering all this, it would be appropriate to approve the draft document submitted by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and stipulate measures to streamline state regulation of trade activity, promote trade and formulate an effective national trade policy in 2009, to instruct the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the concerned federal executive-power agencies to implement the above measures, while taking into consideration the Government's previous instructions for the sustained operation of the trade sector and to focus on the resolution of high-priority issues and to report the results to the Government in the fourth quarter of 2009.
5. The draft federal law On Amending Article 236.7 and Excluding Article 246.9 from the Criminal Proceedings Code of the Russian Federation
The draft federal law aims to comply with the requirements of the Russian Constitutional Court's resolution No. 18-P dated December 8, 2003 on confirming the constitutionality of articles 125, 219, 227, 229, 236, 237, 239, 246, 254, 271, 378, 405 and 408 and chapters 35 and 39 of the Russian Criminal Proceedings Code, hereinafter referred to as CPC, under which article 236.7 is not subject to amendment, while article 246.9 of the CPC does not conform to articles 19.2, 45.1, 46.1, 46.2 and 126 of the Russian Constitution.
Under article 125.6 of the Russian Constitution and article 79 of the Federal Constitutional Law On the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, specific unconstitutional acts or their separate provisions will be declared null and void.
Since it was passed, article 236.7 of the CPC making it impossible to appeal court rulings on suspending the examination of specific cases as a result of preliminary hearings has had no legal force and cannot be applied because it contains a norm previously recognised as unconstitutional by the Russian Constitutional Court.
Article 246.9 of the CPC does not conform to the Russian Constitution because it makes it possible to revise court rulings on closing criminal cases due to the prosecutor's refusal to bring up charges only in line with new circumstances and because it prevents the sides from appealing the above-mentioned court rulings to higher courts due to other legal grounds and because it therefore violates their constitutional rights.
In its No. 208-0 ruling dated April 22, 2005, the Russian Constitutional Court said court rulings on granting court dates only aimed to determine the place, date, time and conditions of such sessions and to consider criminal cases in accordance with reasonable deadlines and therefore did not prevent defendants from exercising their right to gain access to justice and to defence in an adversarial-trial process and did not hinder other constitutional rights.
Consequently, article 236.7 of the CPC may stipulate restrictions on appealing court rulings passed during preliminary hearings only regarding the determination of the place, date, time and conditions of court sessions.
Under this document, it is proposed to make the relevant amendment to article 236.7 of the CPS and to exclude article 246.9 from the CPC.
6. The draft federal law On Amending Article 13 of the Federal Law On the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation
The draft federal law aims to regulate public relations regarding the involvement of foreign citizens in labour activity.
Article 13.4 of the Federal Law On the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation lists foreign citizens who do not require any work permits in Russia.
The list also includes foreign citizens invited to the Russian Federation to work as educators at educational establishments except persons entering the Russian Federation to work at professional religious-education establishments.
At the same time, there is no due control over the level of training and professionalism of foreign educators being hired by Russian educational establishments.
The draft law aims to extend the essential measures, stipulated by the Federal Law On the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation to foreign professors hired by educational establishments, except those being invited under international programmes stipulating bilateral and multilateral educator-and-scientist exchanges.
Since 2003, the Russian Federation has been party to the Bologna Process which strives to create a European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and to achieve a high level of professor-and-student mobility. Approval of the above-mentioned federal law will enable Russian higher educational institutions to hire high-quality foreign professors.
The executive order's implementation will not require any additional federal-budget allocations.
7. The draft federal law On Ratifying the Agreement Between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States on the Terms of the CIS Executive Committee's Stay on the Territory of the Russian Federation and the Protocol on Amending the Agreement Between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States on the Terms of the CIS Executive Committee's Stay on the Territory of the Russian Federation dated July 4, 2001.
8. Changing the line-up of the Presidium of the Russian Federation's Government.
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April 8, 2009* Press releases by the Department of Press Service and Information
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discussion by the Presidium of the Government of the Russian Federation.