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По сообщениям информагентств и собственной информации
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The Russian side is interested in continuing fruitful cooperation with the World Bank Group - in particular, to solve the problems facing Russia as the head of the G8, said Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov. According to Mr. Zhukov, following the restoration of sustainable economic growth and strengthening of internal political stability, Russia's international weight has increased significantly in recent years.
Departments
Russian Minister of Agriculture Alexey Gordeev considers one of the tasks of the national project for the development of agriculture to be the creation of agricultural cooperatives for the production and marketing of products. In his opinion, one of the directions of the national project for the development of agriculture is the accelerated development of livestock farming. According to Mr. Gordeev, this largely depends on work with Rosselkhozbank and on lending.
Regions
The new head of the Altai Republic, Alexander Berdnikov, who officially assumed this position on Friday, dismissed members of the government of the republic led by the former head of the region, Mikhail Lapshin. The candidacy of Mr. Berdnikov for the post of head of the Altai Republic was submitted to the State Assembly of the region by the President of Russia. On December 22, 2005, deputies of the Altai parliament vested Mr. Berdnikov with the powers of the head of the republic. The former head of the Altai Republic, Mikhail Lapshin, plans to work in the Federation Council. He accepted the offer to become a member of the Federation Council from the administration of the Omsk region.
Deputies of the People's Assembly of Ingushetia adopted a resolution in which they turned to the Chairman of the Russian Government, Mikhail Fradkov, with a request to create a state commission to determine the borders of Ingushetia. Parliamentarians of Ingushetia note that “after the crisis situation in the Chechen Republic has been resolved and all branches of state power have been formed in it in accordance with Russian legislation, there are practically no obstacles to the territorial delimitation of Ingushetia with neighboring entities.”
Sociology
Almost half of Russians - 46.6% - are afraid of losing their jobs. 50% of our compatriots are confident in the reliability of their work. Such data are provided in a January public opinion poll conducted by the Bashkirova and Partners company. As noted in the study, respondents with a high level of education fear less for their jobs—more than 60% of them are confident about the future. If they have to look for a new job, then almost 39% of Russians believe that they will quickly be able to find a new place. At the same time, 50.6% are convinced that if they lose their job, it may take quite a lot of time to find a new source of income.