Minister: Russian government readies new econ strategy till 2020

MOSCOW, Jan 22 (PRIME) -- The Russian government is preparing a new strategic plan, which will encompass economic development measures until 2020 and will be base on the new possibilities of the country’s economy and new targets for a “brand new growth,” Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Friday.

“The Finance Ministry is now working on measures and it will present them to the government for a prompt response in 2016 as well as measures of middle-term reaction,” Siluanov told a meeting the Finance Ministry.

“Since we see that this year we are implementing measures of a short-term plan, while the measures for 2017–2018-2019 are the goal which we will have to solve in the second half of the year.”

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that President Vladimir Putin will meet the government to discuss the economic situation in the week between January 25 and January 31.

“Nothing extraordinary has been planned,” he said.

“There will be contacts with the government next week … We do not rule out other meetings devoted to the economic subject.”

Discussions of some narrower economic topics are not ruled out, he said.

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