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В.Путин.Прямая линия.24.12.01.Part 4

Live with President Vladimir Putin - Hot Line (excerpts)Part 4
December 24, 2001
Moscow, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, village of Kazache-Malevany (Krasnodar Region), Kaliningrad, Novosibirsk, Murmansk, Rostov-on-Don, St Petersburg

Прямая линия с Президентом России
24 декабря 2001 года
Москва, Владивосток, Екатеринбург, Казань, хутор Казаче-Малеваный (Краснодарский край), Калининград, Новосибирск, Мурманск, Ростов-на-Дону, Санкт-Петербург

QUESTION (Novosibirsk): Good morning, Mr Putin. We have been talking a lot about economic growth. But what will happen to fundamental science and will the funding of fundamental research be increased?
VLADIMIR PUTIN: I have said it many times and I think it is important to repeat that science and education are more important for us even than energy, than oil and gas because this is what distinguished us from the countries which until recently we described as developing countries. And of course the government must pay due attention to science.
I agree that for many years science has been neglected. However, I would like you to note that over the past two years the government has been meeting all the budgetary targets. On the whole we see and I talked with the President of the Academy of Sciences about it yesterday and he has confirmed that on the whole the outlays for fundamental and applied science I know what you are going to tell me: applied science is a separate item. Of course, I think applied science should be the concern of those industrial sectors to which it caters. But fundamental science is the concern of the government.
This year saw a slight growth. Next year financing of fundamental science is to increase by 4050%. Of course, it will be less in real terms considering the inflation level. But the government has made a decision: this year the money will be spent to increase the salaries of those who work in the sphere of fundamental science and to address the problems connected with the housing and utilities sphere.
And next year, in 2003, will see allocations for the research process proper. We wish we could do it at once, but unfortunately, the budget cannot support everything at once, so we have to solve the problems in this sequence.
QUESTION (Novosibirsk): I am recently retired. I am aware that pensions have been raised. Again, pensions are being recalculated. Wont we be cheated, as before?
VLADIMIR PUTIN: You probably mean the planned pension reform envisaged by the package of laws passed by the State Duma which applies to the paid up part of the pensions.Let me reassure you. That system will fully apply and cover only those citizens who today are under the age of 30. That category of citizens will be fully covered by that system. The people in the 30-50 age bracket will be covered only partially. And the people aged 50 and older, let alone those who are already retired, will not be affected at all.The paid up system will function in the following way. Today companies and organisations contribute 28% to the Pension Fund, of which only 2% will go into the accumulated part in 2002. I would like to take advantage of your question to explain it not only to you but to all the other people who are interested. Only 2% will go to the accumulated part. And a person will in the future be able to decide whether to deposit the accumulated part with some fund or to use it in some other way.The government has assumed that it would bring part of the wages out of the shadow economy because a person will demand that the employer declare his full wage and not pay it under the table in an envelope, because the future pension would depend on his wage today. And that is a very important principle.I repeat, it will be introduced gradually, and as regards current pensioners, pensions will be raised on a quarterly basis in 2002.

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