President of Russian Federation V. Putin replied questions of Russian people
Today the president of Russian Federation answered questions of citizens of Russia in direct TV and radio broadcast. The "Hotline to the president" broadcast was carried out by federal TV-channels "Pervij" and "Rossia" and radio stations "Majak" and "Radio of Russia". The Putin?s appearance was broadcasted in 32 languages for 160 countries of the world. In the beginning of the conference Putin stressed positive strengthening of the economics of Russia. As he said economic characteristics of Russia are stronger than that of most of other advanced countries and countries of transitional economics. V. Putin said that government has to discuss the modification of principles of taxation in the sphere of oil industry in order to arrange appropriate profits to budget with no increasing of internal petrol prices. Moreover, Putin considers it is necessary to change the country energetic balance. The head of the state stressed that we need to develop conditions of coal as the resource demands. V. Putin said that amount resources of such kind will cover needs of further generations. President also commented problems of internal politics of Russia. Particularly, he said that there is no danger of governmental monopoly coming back. His words were that "United Russia" dominates in politics at the moment "but it is normal to all democratic countries". He said that they have enough of opponents in the parliament. Speaking on problems of social field that now problem of waifs is very critical now in Russia. And government of Russia will pay particular attention on that. Social and economical stability should be the basis for solving that demographic problem, president said. Concerning Russian defense forces strengthening Putin informed that financial recovery of defense industry. Particularly, increase of the orders amount was reached, work places are maintained and their amount is increased. On the whole, aim of the government now is to keep positive tendencies in economics and to concentrate financial, politic and administrative resources on solving social problems and working on priority development of some fields, said president.