Putin does not rule out an adjustment of its decrees of May – BBC Russian

• 7 May 2015

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Ability to implement orders Putin has repeatedly questioned

Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted that the May decrees can be adjusted to take account of the economic situation, however, ruled out the possibility of backsliding in their implementation.

“The difficulty of this stage should be an additional incentive to search for reserves and non-standard solutions for a more prudent, to focus the use of funds “, – he said.

Putin admitted that initially the May decrees prepared in another economic situation.

During the election campaign in 2012, Vladimir Putin laid out his program in seven articles and on the day of the inauguration of 7 May 2012 signed a number of social and economic decrees, which were the basic directions of development of the country in the coming years. Orders steel analogue pre-election program.

Among the objectives set by Putin – the creation in 2020 of 25 million high-skilled jobs; improving Russia’s position in the World Bank’s Doing Business (Doing Business) with the 120th in 2011 to 20th – 2018; increase the salaries of doctors and teachers of high schools and 200% of the average wage in the region, as well as comfortable accommodation for the 60% of families who want to improve their living conditions.

The possibility of implementing orders Putin has repeatedly questioned the officials and experts.

“I’m not sure that some of the decrees at all feasible ever. Another part just would destroy the social environment”, – said the Russian service of BBC BBC director of the Center for Economic Policy Research Economic Faculty Oleg Buklemishev.

Progress report

Before the meeting with Vladimir Putin on Thursday, the government once again has reported on the implementation of the May decrees. After last year’s report on the implementation of government decrees Putin’s ministers have repeatedly reprimand.

During one of the “straight line” Putin said that deliberately overstated the bar orders and was generally satisfied with their performance, but in December 2013, speech to the Federal Assembly, expressed dissatisfaction their implementation.

According to the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers, the lag in the implementation of the decrees is less than 20%. In the May decrees contained 218 government orders. To date, 137 orders fulfilled, while the 168 has to be done, the government said in a statement.

In 2015, the government waiting for execution of orders 19. Another 43 are to be made in the period from 2016 to 2020.

According to rough estimates, which were published last year, the May decrees will cost the budget of 2 trillion rubles to the end of 2015. At the same time, the Ministry of Finance estimates, the Russian budget even with the high price of oil up to 2020 is not enough about 10 trillion rubles to finance all budget commitments.

Expert: “put a tick We already know how the decrees “

Oleg Buklemishev believes that the story of the decree” turned zilch “and what initially looked like a socio-economic plan designed to lead to good results, ultimately resulted in” Traditional bureaucratic exercise with removed or not removed from the control orders “.

The economist is sure that the original orders were poorly structured, and their implementation is counterproductive.

According to him, many tick decrees became possible due to inflation or devaluation effects, that is, many things have been achieved due to the general macroeconomic changes, and not because of government action.

From the meeting with the president of the expert does not expect: “On the contrary, I dream to We forget about it as soon as possible. We put a check without any decrees able “.

” In the current environment, these instructions do not make sense. Now we need to think about how to rebuild the economy. Decrees proceeded from the assumption that the economy works, what is the growth of budget revenues. Unfortunately, the economy is in a bad state categorically, and we simply can not afford those things, which are set out in the decree “, – says Oleg Buklemishev.