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Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin is confident that early repayment of debt to the Paris Club will be completed in the near future. The Ministry of Finance must complete the early repayment of part of the debt to the Paris Club of creditors in the amount of $15 billion by August 20.
According to the forecast of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, the number of Russian population living below the poverty line will drop to 10% by 2008 from 17.7 in 2004. The head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade German Gref announced this yesterday at a government meeting. According to him, in the coming years, the main measures to reduce poverty will be aimed at creating conditions for increasing the income of the population, primarily through increased employment and wage growth in the real and budgetary sectors of the economy.
Purchasing interventions on the Russian grain market will begin on August 29, said Russian Minister of Agriculture Alexey Gordeev. “According to the decision of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, the start of grain purchases is scheduled for August 29, interventions will take place in accordance with the approved procedure,” the minister said.
The permanent population of Russia in the first half of the year decreased by 462.3 thousand people (0.29%) and as of July 1 amounted to 143.1 million people, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) reported. In January-June, 721.9 thousand people were born and 1 million 184.2 thousand people died, which is 26.5 thousand fewer people and 13.1 thousand more people, respectively, compared to the same period in 2004 . Natural decline, calculated as the difference between the number of deaths and births, amounted to 462.3 thousand people, an increase from 422.7 thousand people a year earlier.
Real disposable cash income (income minus mandatory payments, adjusted for the consumer price index) of the population in Russia in July 2005 fell by 0.7% compared to the previous month. Compared to the same period in 2004, income growth was 7.5%. This is evidenced by preliminary data from Rosstat.
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Vladimir Putin nominated Alexander Karlin to give him the powers of head of the administration of the Altai Territory . The press service of the head of state reported this. Alexander Karlin was born on October 29, 1951 in the village of Medvedka, Tyumnentsevsky district, Altai Territory. Candidate of Legal Sciences, Professor. Since April 2004, he served as head of the Presidential Administration for Civil Service Affairs. Alexander Karlin is an Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation. Honorary employee of the prosecutor's office. Honorary worker of the justice authorities. Married, he has two sons. According to news agencies and own information
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