President Dmitry Medvedev who is expected to become Russia’s new premier after President-elect Vladimir Putin assumes office in May, said on Tuesday his new Cabinet will focus on measures to fight inflation, poverty and unemployment.
“The solutions to all the three problems must be included in the list of priorities of a future government,” Medvedev told a meeting of the State Council.
“The poverty rate is still too high across the country and, secondly, there are regions where the unemployment level is higher the national average. Thirdly, families with children most frequently fall into the poverty category, even though they deserve this least of all,” he said.
Medvedev said that in expert estimates the poverty risk is 50 percent in a family with two children and already about 70 percent in a family of three children. “Of course, this situation is inadmissible. We must reverse it,” he said.
