Russian Prime Minsiter Vladimir Putin disagreed with speaker of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov several times during his meeting with legislators at Lesnye Dali on June 29.
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Putin Submits Economic Plan to Party
Russian Prime Minister and leader of the United Russia Party Vladimir Putin met with legislators from his party on June 29 and told them that salaries paid from the federal budget will be raised 30 percent on December 1 of this year. The meeting was held in the Lesnye Dali resort outside Moscow, to which the lawmakers came in crowded buses. Before the meeting, the legislators discussed not the budget, but President of Tatarstan and United Russia member Mintimer Shaimiev’s recent proposal to repeal the law cancelling the election of governors. The legislators were against his idea.
The prime minister began his presentation with a summary of their activities and the unsuccessful fight against inflation. He also railed against “last century’s” Construction Norms and Rules, calling them archaic and accusing them of making construction more expensive, or even impossible. He urged the lawmakers to use their full range of capabilities to fight the rules. “It would be extremely counterproductive to hide your heads in the sand when another part [of the body] will still be hanging out,” the president observed.
“When I am abroad,” the prime minister said, “I say that problems with inflation are imported to us from abroad. Yes, they had a mortgage credit crisis there, then the banks got involved… And there are growing prices for oil on world markets, and growing prices for gas… But there are domestic causes too. We consider it incorrect today to fight inflation by lowering the rate of economic growth! The head of the European Central Bank Mr. Trichet raises the refinancing rate and says, I understand that it impedes economic growth, but I consider combating inflation more important. That is for your information. We should have different opinions on this account.”
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All the Article in Russian as of June 30, 2008
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