Hot Line with President of Russia Vladimir Putin.Part 2
October 25, 2006
Moscow, Baltiisk, Bryansk, Irkutsk, Kaspiisk, Kondopoga, Naberezhniye Chelny, Nakhodka, Tver, and the village of Podgorodnyaya Pokrovka in Orenburg Region
Прямая линия с Президентом России
25 октября 2006 года
Москва, Находка, Иркутск, Кондопога, с.Подгородняя Покровка, Набережные Челны, Каспийск, Тверь, Севастополь, Брянск, Балтийск
This general improvement is making it possible for us to tackle and resolve social problems. I do not want to overload viewers with figures, but peoples real incomes rose by around 11 percent, if we deduct inflation, and wages were up by 12.8 percent. Pensions rose by 6.1 percent in real terms. There are, however, some problems I must also point out.
First, we have noted a slowdown in industrial output growth, which has been decreasing over recent years. The current figure is 4.2 percent. This is partly due to a reduction in natural resources production, a reduction in the growth rate in the natural resources production sector.
Second, I mentioned real incomes. Wages have risen by 12.8 percent, but labour productivity, which is one of the most important indicators of economic development and the quality of economic growth, has risen by only 6 percent. This is not good. We need to pay attention to both these points given that when peoples purchasing power increases and economic actors have greater possibilities and financial opportunities, imports begin to rise and this impedes the development of our own industries. But overall, I would say that we can be happy with the way the country has developed, the way the economy is developing.
SERGEI BRILYOV: Lets begin the direct part of the Hot Line then and move onto the questions from around the country. Katya, which is the first town we will be going to today?
YEKATERINA ANDREYEVA: We have a linkup now with Nakhodka in the Far East, where our correspondent, Yevgeny Popov, is working. Yevgeny, go ahead please with the questions for the President.
YEVGENY POPOV: Good afternoon, Vladimir Vladimirovich, good afternoon, Yekaterina and Sergei.
Its midday in Moscow but here, seven time zones away, it is already evening in Nakhodka, a city that fully lives up to its name as Russias eastern maritime gateway to Asia.
People wanting to ask the President a question have gathered here on the main square. Lets get straight on with the questions then. Who wants to go first? How about you?
VLADIMIR LUSHPAI: Good afternoon, Vladimir Vladimirovich. My name is Vladimir Lushpai and Im an intercity bus driver. Theres been talk for a long time about building a road to link the Far East to the rest of the country, but the road still isnt there. My relatives live in Kazakhstan and I would like to drive from Nakhodka to Kazakhstan in my car to visit them, but theres no road, and without a road, theres no unified country. Can you tell us when the road will be built?
VLADIMIR PUTIN: The correspondent working in Nakhodka noted that when its morning in Moscow, its already evening in the Far East, and that just illustrates what a vast territory our country has. Incidentally, they call Japan the land of the rising sun, but New Zealand is even farther east than Japan, and even farther east than New Zealand is our region of Chukotka. To be precise then, it is Russia that is the land of the rising sun.
Now, to get to the substance of your question, we are putting considerable sums of money into road construction, but this is still not enough, just as the state is still not paying enough attention to this issue. Infrastructure limitations in general, be they in the energy sector, in aviation, port facilities, in river and railway transport, are all becoming serious factors limiting the countrys economic growth. We will therefore give these issues greater attention, and not just in the Far East. We have made it a priority today to expand transport capacity on export and import routes, mainly in the northwest, through Kaliningrad Region, Leningrad Region, St Petersburg, with its access to Scandinavia. This also includes the Don Highway, linking Moscow and Novorossiisk, and also Dzhubga in Sochi, because the roads between our southern cities are also not in the best condition today.
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