Mr Putin holds a video conference on the performance of the Pension Fund in 2010
Transcript of the meeting:
Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues.
We will use a video conferencing format today as we summarise the Pension Fund’s performance in 2010 and discuss its objectives for the near future. Let me make a few brief remarks to begin, and then the Pension Fund’s board chairman, Anton Drozdov, and some of his colleagues working in the regions will tell us what they have been doing. We’ll discuss what we should do together in order to consolidate the country’s pension system.
As you know, the development of a reliable pension system is among our unconditional priorities. There are more than 40 million pensioners and WWII veterans in Russia at the moment. More than 40 million! We realise perfectly well how much these people have done for this country’s benefit. They now have every reason to expect care and attention from the state.
In recent years, we’ve been raising pensions and other welfare benefits on a regular basis. Let me remind you that Russia is the world’s only country to have carried out a large-scale modernisation of its pension system and raised pensions and other benefits during the economic crisis. As a result, pensions for retirees grew, on average, by nearly 45% last year alone.
And we have had pensions adjusted to the inflation rate twice this year…
More to be posted soon...
источник новости: http://premier.gov.ru/eng/events/news/14821/
