National Priority Projects
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The National Priority Projects of the Russian Federation is a program of the Russian government set out by Russian President Vladimir Putin in his speech on September 5, 2005. The program is aimed to develop social welfare in Russia by additional funding by the state of four selected projects focusing on public health, education, housing and agriculture. The program has been supervised by the Council for Implementation of the Priority National Projects attached to the President of the Russian Federation, created according to a presidential decree on October 21, 2005. The council has been headed by the President himself, First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has been appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Council and Chairman of its Presidium, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov and Igor Shuvalov, aide to the President, have become deputy chairmen of the Council. The implementation of the program is promoted by Russian TV news programs almost daily.
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- Official website of the program (in Russian)
- Medvedev tests Russia's electoral waters by Arkady Ostrovsky, The Financial Times, November 19, 2005.
- Russian PM snubbed on spending by Arkady Ostrovsky and Neil Buckley, The Financial Times, November 14, 2005.
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