RUSSIA FOR 54 FEDERAL, 84 BRANCH PROGRAMMES: ECONOMY MINISTER

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SOCHI, August 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will have 54 federal target programmes plus 84 subprogrammes, German Gref, Minister of Economic Development and Trade, said yesterday. He was addressing a conference President Vladimir Putin convened in Sochi, Black Sea coastal spa.

The number of programmes was cut after his ministry revised the whole from the point of economic expedience. The work resulted in several branch programmes undergraded into investment and R&D expenditures-to a lump 12 billion roubles, roughly $400 million.

Top programme priority belongs to social welfare, and engineering and other infrastructures.

The number of projects shortly to commission will increase threefold. Projects whose construction is to be launched will see a similar shrinkage.

Road building has been upgraded to a federal target programme, with all related projects for close monitoring. "When the government and the State Duma [parliament's lower house] discuss a federal budget draft, they are to see all roads under construction or to be laid," remarked Mr. Gref.

His ministry has analysed nine federal target programmes on President Putin's order-in particular, to properly equip the Russian frontiers, offer the Black Sea Fleet a proper base, Programme Anti-terror, and programmes to fight drug traffic and addiction, and to develop aerospace materials for new-generation aircraft.

A total nine programmes have been adopted for today. Another seven are under debate, and shortly to be signed. "We shall pass them before the year's end, and we vouch their complete financing next year," said the minister.

One, culture-oriented programme, envisages government financing of Moscow's Bolshoi and Youth Drama theatres, the Mariinsky Opera and Ballet of St. Petersburg, and the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet.

A federal programme concerns water resources, with a stress on drinking water supplies in the Russian Far East, added German Gref.

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