RFE/RL: Acting Ingushetian President Meets With Putin
posted by circassiankama on August, 2009 as INGUSHETIA
July 29, 2009
Acting Ingushetian President Meets With Putin
Ingushetian Prime Minister and acting President Rashid Gaysanov met on
July 27 in Moscow with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and briefed him on the political and economic situation in Ingushetia.
It
was Gaysanov's first reported meeting with Putin since he took over the
presidential duties last month following the car-bomb attack that
failed to kill President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev met with Gaysanov near Sochi two weeks ago.
Of
all the federation subjects, Ingushetia is the most dependent on
federal subsidies, which account for over 90 percent of annual budget
spending. It also has one of the highest unemployment rates in Russia.
Those problems have been compounded in recent years by the ongoing
violence between the North Caucasus resistance and the police and
security forces.
Gaysanov admitted that the 20 percent increase
in industrial output registered during the first six months of this
year does not balance out the 20 percent decline last year and the 30
percent drop in 2007. He said improvements in management have resulted
in better performance in the oil sector, which remains an attractive
investment prospect. He also singled out as offering potential for
growth the construction and food-processing sectors.
Gaysanov
said the level of federal subsidies is adequate to cover current
expenditures, and he thanked Putin for the recent Russian government
decision to allocate additional funds, presumably from the 29 billion
rubles ($877.8 million) in economic aid that Medvedev pledged when he visited Magas in late January.
Gaysanov
repeated his prediction of January 2009 that it will prove possible to
reduce by 30 percent Ingushetia's dependence on federal subsidies, but
again did not offer a time frame for doing so. He also said that the
government has managed to pay off almost all the salary arrears owed to
government employees.
Gaysanov also met
in Moscow on July 27 with State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov, who said
the Duma fully supports the federal program for the social and economic
development of Ingushetia.
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