Surkov will take care of regions debts

The working group on the problem of debt obligations of the regions will be created in the Russian government, it will be headed by Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov, according to Saturday on the website of the United Russia party.

“Many regions have a large number of loans taken and there are serious concerns that they will not be able to fulfill the budgetary obligations. The working group will solve this problem,” the words of the Vice-Spiker of the Council of the Federation of Svetlana Orlova following the meeting of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and the EP leadership are quoted on the website.

According to her, during a meeting with the Prime Minister, the problem of counterfeit products was also discussed. “We know that a lot of counterfeit products is located in the markets of children's goods, the drug market. This problem will also need to be solved,” RIA Novosti quoted Orlov.

In addition, at the meeting of the prime minister (and the head of the party) with the leaders of EP Medvedev, he confirmed the willingness to introduce control over the costs of officials since 2013. The prime minister also called on United Russia to help fellow citizens leave the previous mobile phone numbers when moving to another operator, that is, cancel “mobile slavery”.