Medvedev announced the reduction of federal officials in the regions – RBC

Medvedev announced the reduction of federal officials in the regions – RBC

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Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia’s government will reduce the number of federal officials in the regions. However, their functions will be transferred to the subjects of the Russian Federation. On it, he said in the program “Vesti on Saturday with Sergei Brilev” on channel “Russia 1″, which was broadcast to the Far East, according to ITAR-TASS.

According to Medvedev, such an experiment has already been tested in the Crimea and Sevastopol. “We need to see what it will bring results, it can be replicated in other regions, because the federal officials in the regions of very many of them, just need to cut,” – he said. Transfer to the regional level may be subject to a variety of questions. “Well, that’s all you want, including the supervision of the work, for the sanitary and epidemiological situation,” – said Medvedev.

In this case, plans for further abolition of federal agencies and departments yet. “In fact, the reduction must also be reasonable, and not for the cuts. Here we come to the conclusion that these three agencies [Ministry of Regional Development, Rosoboronpostavka, Rosoboronzakaz] are not necessary. I came to the president. He agreed with this, they eliminated, “- he said, Interfax reported.

According to Medvedev, the new reduction in the number of federal executive bodies will be only if the government” feel “that some of the agencies have “outlived its role.” The government in this case, a “living organism”, and its structure should vary depending on the task, the Prime Minister added.

September 8, Russian President Vladimir Putin has supported the government’s proposal to upravzdenii Ministry of Regional Development of Russia. “The government – not a rigid structure, it must be changed. In accordance with a number of your decrees have recently been established controls that deal with economic and social problems on a territorial basis, namely the Ministry of Development of the Far East, the Ministry of the Crimea and the Ministry of Development of the North Caucasus “- then said Medvedev.

Putin signed a decree on the abolition of the agency. He also abolished the Rosoboronzakaz and Rosoboronpostavki. “For eight years, when they [Rosoboronzakaz and Rosoboronpostavka] worked with them certain activities carried out, certain problems have been solved. But today, on the basis of that one body is the responsibility of government, the structure of the government, as they say, under the government’s Rosoboronzakaz and Rosoboronpostavka historically remained in the structure of the Ministry of Defence, as there is a proposal to abolish both bodies, in order to focus full work in the Ministry of Defence, “- said in a meeting with President Medvedev.

The functions of the abolished offices will be shared between the Ministry of Industry, the Federal Antimonopoly Service and the Accounting Chamber. Putin agreed, “Okay. We have already discussed this before. If you consider that it is appropriate, then let’s do it ».

Gregory Naberezhnye

September 20, 2014

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