Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with Dmitry Aristov, director of the Federal Executive Office, that the level of salary and well-being of Russian citizens should increase. This has been reported area Kremlin.
The Russian leader described the situation of Russian citizens as being in debt, inability to pay loans, and delays in payments for housing and communal services as a “state problem”. Putin stressed that “people should not have such life situations.”
“The pay level is supposed to improve people’s well-being in general. “Although the situation in the labor market is stable at the moment, we still have to think about it all the time.”
On August 22, Vladimir Putin at the meeting of the Strategic Development and National Projects Council spoke About the salaries of public sector employees. The President of the Russian Federation called for attention not to be weakened by the increase in salaries of state employees. In his opinion, the average salary of Russians in the economy of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, as well as their salaries, should increase.
Previously, Putin said that real wages in Russia this year must grow 3-5%.