Putin, at the opening ceremony of social facilities in some regions, I’m talking He said, via video link, that people should be evacuated from dilapidated dwellings.
“In general, the resettlement of citizens from the emergency fund is also ahead of the country. And we are constantly talking about this: people need to be evacuated from slums, ”said the president.
He noted that by the end of 2022, Russian authorities expect to set a new record for housing construction. “More than 87 million square metres, 3 million Russian families have improved their living conditions. We need to achieve more. Of course, we need to reach higher dynamics,” he said.
Librarian salaries and actual results
Commenting on Buryatia’s report on the opening of a new library, Putin also evaluated the salary level in the social field.
“Today we will discuss with the government the level of income, wages, in the country as a whole and in the social sphere in particular. In the social sector in general, a very modest wage level. Especially in libraries,” said Putin.
He also spoke of the authorities’ desire to turn libraries into “attractions, essentially clubs, with modern interactive equipment, good Internet.” According to their interlocutors from Buryatia, they managed to implement it there.
During the video conference, a schoolboy from Buryatia spoke with the president, and the head of the district Alexei Tsydenov and the director of the library system of the Barguzinsky district Natalya Postnikova were also present. Tsydenov advised the student: “Say whatever you want!”
“There is a lot of new stuff here, perestroika has gone well. There are signs for the blind to go. There are VR glasses, there is a studio for editing. I heard that 2000 books have been delivered, which is a good thing,” the boy replied.
money in your pocket
Later, in a meeting with members of the government, Putin said that people tend to judge their well-being by the amount of money in their pockets, not statistics.
“We have to be guided by the figures that statistics give, but first of all, statistics and statistical accounting themselves need to be improved, and secondly, people still determine their well-being by the amount of money in their pockets, not by statistics. said Putin.
The President instructed that the salaries of public sector workers be indexed in January 2023. Earlier, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov on the sidelines said that next year the salary level of state employees will increase by more than 8%, and pensions by 1,000 rubles.
“This year we are facing inflation that everyone knows. Prices have risen noticeably, and wages in the economy as a whole are also rising, at least in nominal terms. Therefore, in January next year, it is necessary to index the salaries of state employees, as well as allocate the necessary financial assistance to the regions that really need this assistance. <…> You need to set your priorities right. And the top priority, if not the most important, is the well-being of Russian citizens,” he said.
He noted that after the third quarter results, the poverty rate dropped to 10.5 percent. It was 11% for the same period last year.
“This is a slight decline, it is important that there is such a definite positive trend in the current difficult economic situation, it needs to be sustained,” Putin said.
He also said that “a small allowance, a kickback in reaching the targeted level of salaries” was given to regions that did not reach the required indicators, and this rate increased to 5 percent.
However, according to him, only 10 out of 89 regions of Russia meet the indicators, and even they are not 100%, but with a small permissible deviation.
In this context, at the beginning of 2023, regions with low budgetary security will receive additional support from the federal center to reach the required public sector salary level.
Speaking about the work of the system of budgetary institutions, including cultural institutions, the President noted that in recent years, their budgets, especially affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, have been reduced. He urged the government to analyze the situation and “ensure that the professionals employed here are reasonably remunerated and motivated to perform their professional duties with a high level of efficiency”.
Overall, according to Putin, the government’s primary task remains “to achieve a real increase in the income of citizens in the country and to reduce poverty and inequality.”