
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday will speak in the State Duma with an annual report on the results of the government and present plans for the country's socio-economic development for the near future. After the performance, the prime minister will traditionally be asked three questions from each faction. The deputies made it clear that the premiere will be accused of ineffective work of the Cabinet of Ministers, and demand that he talk in detail about measures to overcome the crisis in many areas.
The first vice speaker, the first deputy head of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Ivan Melnikov, said that the head of government was "waiting for a specific test," ITAR-TASS reports. According to the parliamentarian, the deputies do not want to hear "common words as a poorly interesting genre, but want to know about specific steps for saving and building the economy."
The deputies are tuned to talk with Medvedev during the annual government report. They want to hear what the government is going to do to withdraw the economy from stagflation and how to compensate for the costs of Crimea, reports RBC Daily .
As it became known, in the Prime Minister’s report a significant part of the time will devote the development of the agro -industrial complex. Medvedev can also affect the topic of adjusting the forecast of socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, taking into account the threat of the application of economic sanctions by Western countries due to the situation in Ukraine. The fact that the prime minister "will definitely talk about this," said the first vice speaker of the State Duma, Alexander Zhukov. In his opinion, when planning the pace of economic growth, budget, when drawing up a forecast, “one cannot abstract from a complex economic situation that may arise from the application of sanctions.
The forecast of the economic block of the Government on GDP growth for 2014 ranges from 1.1% to zero indicators. The outflow of capital according to the results of this year is expected at the level of $ 100 billion. An annual inflation is predicted about 6-7%. The government, when drawing up forecasts, will have to take into account the fact of joining the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol to the Russian Federation. The deputies also intend to ask the Prime Minister about this.
Parliamentarians and a report on the slowdown in the rate of economic growth of the Russian Federation, which experts interviewed by RIA Novosti , will require one of the most significant defects of the government in 2013. This was stated by the chief economist of "Alfa-Bank" Natalia Orlova and the director of the Institute of Strategic Analysis of the FBC Igor Nikolaev. Analysts attributed the strict implementation of the budget rule and low inflation to the achievements of the Cabinet of Ministers.
Crimea, corruption and "collapse of the economy"
According to RIA Novosti, deputies will ask Medvedev questions about the integration of Crimea into Russian life and the actions of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Russian Federation in the case of economic sanctions. The fact that "now, probably, one of the main issues is the speedy integration of Crimea into the Russian space," the first deputy head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma Vyacheslav Timchenko told the agency. The deputy noted that at the same time this problem should not obscure the rest.
Deputies will also affect a number of issues on corruption, pension system, and healthcare. The Communists are going to blame the government of "collapse of the economy", writes RBC Daily. The Communist Party faction sent questions in advance to the prime minister. In particular, the Communists asked how the Cabinet plans to restrain inflation. They also accused a number of ministers, "extremely liberal", that they "give the social sphere to the market." The Communist Party asked if the prime minister plans to dismiss any of his wards. “We also ask what resources Crimea will finish,” the head of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party, Vadim Solovyov, told the publication.
“Fair Russia” will raise the question of pension reforms that have entered the impasse and will also ask if the “share of cash receipts to other Russian regions will be deprived in the Crimea,” said Socialist Revolutionary Socialist Revolutionaries Mikhail Emelyanov.
The LDPR prepared four issues on migration policy, the development of the North Caucasus, Skolkovo and relations with Europe on Gaza, said Igor Lebedev, Vice Speaker of the State Duma, Vice Speaker of the State Duma. The LDPR has claims to "terrifying migration policy," said RBC Lebedev. According to him, the LDPR will also ask the prime minister about whether Skolkovo is beneficial. In addition, in the faction they want to hear what Medvedev plans to do so that "the Ukrainians do not reach our pipelines and the supply of gas to Europe is not violated."
United Russia, including those who are part of the party’s leadership, could not say what they would ask their leader about.
Putin liked the work of the government
Meanwhile, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has already given his assessment of the work of the government. During the special meeting with the prime minister on the eve of his report in front of the Duma, the head of state positively appreciated the activities of the Cabinet of Ministers over the past year, noting that in difficult economic conditions the government "still managed to reach a positive growth and positive dynamics of development-despite the fact that in many European countries we observed the stagnation and even a decrease in previous indicators to zero and even minus," ITAR-TASS reports.
According to the president, in 2013, GDP in the Russian Federation grew by 1.5%, the same growth indicator in the field of labor productivity. Inflation is recorded at 6.5%.
According to Putin, one of the main achievements of the government led by Medvedev is that "all social obligations to the population were fulfilled." In the field of healthcare, salaries increased by 18.5%, in education - by 24%, the average salary of economics reached 29,400 rubles, and the average pension amount increased by 9.6%to 10,030 rubles.
In response, Medvedev assured the head of state that there were reserves for the fulfillment of social obligations - "although these obligations are intense, they will be thoroughly fulfilled in the field of wages and in the field of supporting social industries." “We will do everything that we outlined,” the prime minister promised.