Transcript of the beginning of the meeting:
Dmitry Medvedev: We usually save sport for the end, but today we will start with it. On Saturday, the International University Sports Federation decided that the 2019 Winter Universiade would be held in Krasnoyarsk. This is the next major sports event that our country will be hosting. I want to congratulate everyone who was vouching for this competition. It will be a great sports event. Only recently, we hosted the summer students’ event in Kazan - the Summer Universiade. I must admit, everyone enjoyed it. Kazan residents and visitors, as well as the athletes and the representatives of the International University Sports Federation were pleased with the way the Universiade was organised. I hope we will be able to organise the Winter Universiade to an equally high standard. It should be a holiday for Krasnoyarsk residents, for the whole country and, of course, for the athletes who will take part in it. I will charge First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov to handle the issues that the Government is responsible for. He is on a business trip today, but we will give him the good news.
I have some more information on sports. The Sochi Olympics will start in February. Our task today is not only to bring Sochi infrastructure up to the highest standards (I think there will be no problems here), but also to think about the future, because the Olympics will end soon, and we will have to use the venues for the benefit of the people of our country.
D.Medvedev: The International University Sports Federation decided that the 2019 Winter Universiade would be held in Krasnoyarsk. This is the next major sports event that our country will be hosting. It will be a great sports event.
You know that the Russian International Olympic University has enrolled its first students this year. The university is designed to become the leading research and educational centre in the field of sport. I have just signed a directive on the establishment of the National Children’s Sports and Health Centre on the basis of two Olympic facilities: the Maly Ice Palace and the ice hockey training rink. These two major facilities will be used to develop children’s sports, which I consider a very important goal. They will have enough children eager to take up ice hockey and also enough funding and everything else necessary for this. A few words about funding: the necessary allocations have been earmarked in the federal budget. This subsidy will amount to over 260 million roubles in 2014, and also substantial sums in 2015 and 2016. These are new facilities that don’t need repairs, so these allocations should suffice.
And now let’s get back to practical matters, namely the state defence order. Only two months remain before the end of the year. Mr Rogozin (Dmitry Rogozin), report please. Are you behind schedule? Are you making plans for next year? Some time ago we discussed ways to optimise the system of the state defence order and to better monitor its operation. It may be too soon to speak about this now, but I would like you to report on the current situation. Proceed please.
Dmitry Rogozin: Mr Medvedev, we are working on this system, which is far from finished yet, in part because a new law on the state defence order will come into force on 1 January 2014. We are now finalising the legal framework for enforcing the law. The Government has adopted two resolutions, another four are ready for signing, and two more are being drafted (there are plans to finish them this December). I’d like to thank you for your assistance in coordinating the complex procedures for allocating responsibility between our departments with regard to the starting price of state defence contracts. We will forward our conclusions of this issue to the Government soon.
D.Rogozin: Regarding the execution of the state defence order for this year, I would say that it is better than last year, even though it is 60% larger. Some federal executive authorities have fulfilled it by 100%, including the Rosatom state corporation, the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Federal Drug Control Service and the Federal Guard Service.
Regarding the execution of the state defence order for this year, I would say that it is better than last year, even though it is 60% larger. Some federal executive authorities have fulfilled it by 100%, including the Rosatom state corporation, the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Federal Drug Control Service and the Federal Guard Service. The Defence Ministry has fulfilled over 90% of the order, but it should be remembered that the volume has increased considerably. We will most likely finalise the defence order by the end of this year, in particular with regard to infrastructure for the deployment of troops and military equipment. You are well aware of the details.
As for the law enforcement and security agencies, 93% of state defence contracts have been placed. We believe that the basic target figures will be achieved by the end of November.
Regarding the figures for concrete targets, and not only money, things which we can discuss in public… We will certainly focus on boosting the development of our strategic capability.
In this regard, the troops are receiving new military equipment, the state defence order for delivering ballistic missiles and equipment for the Air Force has been fully fulfilled. About 60 aircraft and helicopters have been provided to the Armed Forces, of various kinds and modifications, as well as 15 complexes with drones and an Iskander-M ballistic missile system, so everything is proceeding well. In general, the system we have built allows the Government, through the Military-Industrial Commission and the Federal Service for State Defence Contracts, to monitor this activity and compliance with the law when executing the state defence order, and such system is proving itself reliable. We hope that, as I said, when the new legal regulations will come into force in 2014, we will abandon the manual placement of defence orders and move towards a steady and reliable automated process.
Dmitry Medvedev: It will be impossible to switch completely to an automated system, we know that, but it is clear that such a procedure must run like clockwork. We need to make the system transparent, with regard, of course, to the specific nature of the subject matter: it needs to be closed to the public, but open to those organisations which monitor the process, and bring results. All the equipment which the defence industry is in charge of must be manufactured on time and be of a good quality. To this end, we need to improve monitoring, and we will talk about this a bit later.
Thank you.
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