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Russian Daily News Information Service"In recent years -- the last five, six years -- we have consistently implemented a certain economic policy. It is producing tangible results," Putin said as he opened the first full session of a council set up on his orders to implement the social projects. "And only by working in this way day after day, year after year, can we hope to receive a mandate of trust from the citizens of Russia to pursue this policy further," said Putin, who assumed the presidency nearly six years ago, at the start of 2000. Under Putin's plan, dubbed "national projects," the
government is to pump an additional 138 billion rubles ($4.6 billion)
in budget funds into health care, education, agriculture and residential
housing next year. The government is also supposed to attract
an additional 42 billion rubles through funding outside the budget
and state-backed loans for those areas next year.
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