Medvedev: The main thing is to maintain the unity of power

One of the main tasks "in the context of global challenges" is to preserve the "existing unity of power in Russia." According to RIA Novosti, President Dmitry Medvedev at a government meeting stated this. "We may have different points of view on various problems, but in conditions of global challenges it is very important to maintain the unity of power," Medvedev said.

“In my opinion, today we succeed: the president, the government, and the federal meeting work, in fact, in a very consolidated, very close contact, solving the tasks that are facing our society today,” the president said. "This is a constant that should be preserved throughout the next period, otherwise we will create significant problems in the development of our state," Medvedev believes.

He also stated that the government managed to solve “a significant part of the problems associated with overcoming the consequences of the financial crisis” “The government managed to make a lot of important decisions in this regard, which stopped spreading financial problems, restored the normal situation in the banking sector,” Medvedev said.

According to him, Russia pays the price "for a number of irresponsible decisions of other countries that led to a global financial crisis." The measures taken by the government, according to the president, are aimed at passing the most acute phase of the global crisis painlessly. "These decisions are aimed at passing the most acute part of the global financial crisis in a prepared state," Medvedev said.

In turn, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that in the third or fourth quarters of 2009, healing will come in world finances. "No one can answer the question of how long it will last, because there was nothing to compare with. There have been no such global crises, so analysts can not make global forecasts. But I personally think that in the third or fourth quarter in world finances, recovery will come," Putin said.