December theses of Putin

10 of the most significant answers of the president to journalists' questions

Vladimir Putin on December 14, as part of a large press conference, answered questions from journalists from Russia and other countries. The New Times has collected the most significant statements from which it follows that the Russian president:

I forgave tax debts

The president assured that taxes in Russia will not grow before the end of 2018, while Putin said that tax debt needs to write off citizens. “We need to pay attention to the tax debt that has arisen over the past many years due to circumstances, which are sometimes not related to a person, due to the imperfection of our tax system. These debts relate to 42 million people. And the total amount of this debt is 41 billion rubles. Maybe someone will swear at me from my liberal opponents. But I think that it is necessary to free people from these payments. And this must be done in the most debit of a person without contacting a person to tax inspectorates, ”Putin said, noting that the same should be done for individual entrepreneurs.

He defended the Central Bank

Answering the question about the "mass lane of the banking industry", Putin defended the actions of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. According to him, control over it is carried out by the prosecutor's office and other bodies, but there were no serious violations. He also supported the healing of the financial system through the sanitation of banks. “I hear criticism in relation to the Central Bank: that by its actions the Central Bank, it is the banking system. This is wrong. Firstly, I repeat, 521 or more banks, 521, in my opinion, and there are even more credit institutions, because banks are not all credit institutions. This is, firstly. Secondly, the central bank, if he takes something even for himself-with the aim of subsequent privatization, ”Putin said.

The government put "satisfactory"

“I generally think that it works satisfactorily, despite the well -known problems. In general, the government acts quite confidently, and the results of its work are satisfactory. This is evidenced, by the way, a return to the sustainable growth of the economy, to solving a number of other issues, to sustainable macroeconomic development, which, of course, is the basis for the development of the economy in the future, ”Putin said. The president preferred not to talk about the future configuration of the Cabinet of Ministers, noting that this is a matter of the future and will be resolved after March 2018.

Compared Navalny with Saakashvili

Answering the question of Ksenia Sobchak about the opposition, Putin replied that the opposition should come out with a positive program for the development of the country, and not with the slogan “against all”. Speaking of Alexei Navalny, he compared it to Mikhail Saakashvili. “Here are those you called is Saakashvili in the Russian edition. And do you want such Saakashvili to destabilize the situation in the country? Do you want us to worry from one Maidan to another? So that we have attempts by coups? " - Putin answered the question with a question and added that I am sure that most Russians do not want this.

He promised the exchange of prisoners

Before the New Year, prisoners between Ukraine and the unrecognized republics of Donbass can be made, despite the fact that at the last moment the Ukrainian side made changes to the sophomic list, Putin made it clear. According to him, the Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, who brought Putin Kum, is engaged in the preparation of the exchange of prisoners on behalf of President Poroshenko with the Ukrainian side. It was Medvedchuk, according to Putin, who asked him to “influence the situation”, which, apparently, means to convince the leadership of the DPR-LNR of the need not to delay the exchange of prisoners and not counteract him.

The president called the effectiveness of the Minsk format a low, "first of all, due to the non-constructive position of representatives of today's Kyiv authorities." Putin once again emphasized that there was no Russian army in the Donbass. “But there, indeed, certain military police formations have been created, which are self -sufficient and are ready to reflect any large -scale military actions against the Donbass. We believe that this corresponds to the interests of those people who live in this territory, because if they do not have such an opportunity, the massacre you talked about - and even worse than in the Srebrenitsa, will be carried out by the so -called nationalist battalions, ”Putin said. He also stated that Russia agreed to the presence of the UN forces throughout the Donbass and thus did not object to the directory of the international control of this territory. “But for this, the Kyiv authorities need to negotiate with the Donbass itself. And in general, conflicts of this kind in the world did not resolve only through intermediaries, they were resolved everywhere during direct contacts between the conflicting parties. Today's Kyiv authorities, unfortunately, are evading these direct contacts, ”Putin summed up.

Accused of the Korean crisis of the United States

Russia does not recognize the National DPRK nuclear status, Putin said, and nuclear and missile tests conducted by Pyongyan are counterproductive. At the same time, the responsibility for the current situation, according to Putin, is largely on the United States. According to Putin, in the recent past, America, after reaching agreements with the DPRK under its nuclear program ( obviously refers to the 1994 framework and six -way negotiations interrupted in 2005. - NT) continued to nominate all new requirements for North Korea, as a result of which she left the negotiation process. Putin sees a chance for settlement in the direct contacts of Washington and Pyongyang. Putin called the statements of US Secretary of State Tillerson about readiness for such negotiations “a very good signal”.

Promised to prevent the arms race

Russia is not going to get out of bilateral agreements with the United States on security. On the contrary, such intentions, according to Putin, are demonstrated by the American side. The Americans first left the software agreement, and recently created the positional area of ​​the European PRO in Romania, placing there, there are missiles-interceptors, which, if desired, can be equipped with Tomagavk winged missiles with nuclear warheads, which is already a violation of an agreement on medium and smaller missiles (RSMD). However, Russia does not intend to get involved in the new arms race, Putin assured. According to him, security and strategic balance will be provided without increasing expenses.

I called for a meeting of fish processors

Under the guise of a journalist, the chairman of the board of directors of the fishing plant addressed Putin. He spoke about the problems of fish processors. Putin said that he was sharing the concern of the industrialist. “If we do not create conditions for profitable processing, then everything will go abroad. There will be created jobs, value added, and the price of fish will remain as high, ”Putin agreed. Noting that it is necessary to develop logistics and revise the issue of quotas. He promised to invite Author to be a question for a working meeting on the problem of fish processing.

Agreed that "Sechin could come to court"

The head of Rosneft Igor Sechin “could have come to court” in the case of the former Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev, Putin said at a press conference, emphasizing that Sechin still did not violate the laws. “As for Sechin and his failure to appear in court, if there is some kind of violation of the law here, the law must accordingly respond to this. But, as far as I imagine this, and I was certainly interested, because I saw the reaction of the public, the law is not violated here. And, as the investigation believes, the materials of Sechin himself are sufficiently collected. But I cannot disagree that Sechin could come to court-what is so and such? I could repeat what he set out during the preliminary investigation and interrogations, ”Putin said.

He praised Kadyrov

“Ramzan is doing everything right,” Putin said, answering the question of the journalist of the Grozny channel about children, who, with the help of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, are taken from Syria. “What Kadyrov does is noble and true. The children did not make a decision that they had to go there, ”said Putin, promising in every possible way to help the Chechen leader in this work.

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