17 July 2012, Tuesday
Dmitry Medvedev attends State Council meeting At a State Council meeting, the prime minister said the regions and the federal government must assume mutual responsibility, and that the federal agencies working in the regions must act responsibly and intensively. Naturally, they must abide by regional and federal law.
16 July 2012, Monday
Dmitry Medvedev holds a meeting with his deputies The prime minister said that any decisions on infrastructure modernisation in Krymsk should be made only after a thorough analysis of the recent tragedy.
13 July 2012, Friday
Dmitry Medvedev chairs government meeting “The government must closely monitor the relief and reconstruction efforts,” the Prime Minister said about the disaster in the Krasnodar Territory. He said that humanitarian aid must be delivered on schedule and reach its intended recipients. “Compassion is something that needs our attention,” Dmitry Medvedev said.
12 July 2012, Thursday
Dmitry Medvedev meets with representatives of the business community
Dmitry Medvedev meets with Sverdlovsk Region Governor Yevgeny Kuivashev The prime minister announced that the government would assist the region in implementing the Expo-2020 project, because, in his words, “It’s the goal of the entire country for Yekaterinburg to win.”
Dmitry Medvedev attends plenary session of Innoprom-2012 forum “What’s key is that the authorities don’t shy away from business problems and don’t just high-handedly direct processes, but are in constant communication with companies, discussing various issues.”
On a working visit to Yekaterinburg, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attends the International Exhibition of Industry and Innovation Innoprom-2012
Olga Golodets holds a teleconference with the regions on demographic and healthcare issues
11 July 2012, Wednesday
Dmitry Medvedev chairs a meeting of Vnesheconombank’s Supervisory Board “The bank will invest about 2 trillion roubles, almost 2.5% of GDP, in the Russian economy until the end of 2015.”
Dmitry Medvedev meets with Raúl Castro, President of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers of Cuba “I think that in recent years we have significantly strengthened the potential of Russian-Cuban relations,” Dmitry Medvedev said, adding that “we must exploit the potential of our relations carefully and rationally.”
Dmitry Medvedev holds meeting with the leaders of the United Russia Party “I am confident that, in the long run, this will allow us to make more effective use of Russia’s competitive advantages on the international market and, naturally, to develop the domestic market,” the Prime Minister said, speaking about Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organisation. At the same time, he noted that specific measures would be implemented in order to mitigate some of the problems associated with Russia’s accession to the WTO.
10 July 2012, Tuesday
Dmitry Medvedev chairs a meeting on measures to rebuild homes damaged by torrential rains in the Krasnodar Territory “The government has no right to ignore any appeal; all appeals must be examined and decided upon. Clean-up operations must begin as soon as possible.”
Olga Golodets holds a meeting of the Trilateral Commission on the Regulation of Social and Labour Relations
9 July 2012, Monday
Dmitry Medvedev meets with his deputies to discuss issues related to the tragic events in the Krasnodar Territory and Ukraine “Bereaved families will each be issued 1 million roubles from the federal budget and 1 million roubles from the budgets of both the Krasnodar Territory and the Pskov Region,” Dmitry Medvedev said. He added that “one-off payments will be provided to compensate for the loss of property.”
Decisions resulting from the meeting on improving the earthquake resistance of residential buildings
6 July 2012, Friday
Dmitry Medvedev holds a government meeting Dmitry Medvedev states the need for the creation of the national budget website. Medvedev said: “Our people have the right to know how the state funds are spent, how the federal budget is formed and how the federal budget funds are spent.”
5 July 2012, Thursday
Decisions following the meeting of the State Commission on the Socioeconomic Development of the Russian Far East, the Republic of Buryatia, the Trans-Baikal Territory and the Irkutsk Region
Dmitry Medvedev ends his working visit to the Far East with a news conference Vladivostok and most of the facilities are ready for APEC Leaders’ Week – Prime Minister
Dmitry Medvedev holds a meeting with Kamchatka Territory Governor Vladimir Ilyukhin in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky The prime minister believes that “it is necessary to search for new development and growth points, which will eventually determine the potential of Kamchatka, the Far East and Eastern Siberia for the next 30-50 years”
4 July 2012, Wednesday
Dmitry Medvedev visits the Inter-Regional Centre for Collecting, Processing and Sharing Monitoring and Forecast Information on Earthquakes in the Far East and Tsunamis
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