Excerpts from the transcript:

Li Keqiang  (via interpreter): Esteemed Prime Minister Medvedev, I am very pleased to meet you again today. Today we are meeting late because I just flew to Beijing from a region. I rushed right from the air stair to meet you here. I hope we will have a wonderful evening.

Thank you for visiting us, and welcome to our regular annual meeting.

Dmitry Medvedev: My esteemed colleague, Premier of the State Council of China Li Keqiang, I am also very glad about our meeting. Thank you very much for arriving so fast. We will have an opportunity to talk today and I appreciate it very much.

I know you had a very important event today, making it all the more pleasant to end the evening in this way.

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The Prime Minister answered questions via the online edition of the People’s Daily Online (Renminwang).

Dmitry Medvedev’s online news conference with Chinese internet users took place at the headquarters of the People’s Daily Online, part of the People’s Daily Group (Renmin Ribao). The news conference was broadcast on the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency website for Russian users.

This format was chosen to mark Dmitry Medvedev’s conference that took place ten years ago at the Rossiya Segodnya headquarters (then RIA Novosti) in Moscow, partnered by the Chinese media holding, Renmin Ribao. 

Dmitry Medvedev lays a wreath at the Monument to the People’s Heroes

31 October 2017

Dmitry Medvedev lays a wreath at the Monument to the People’s Heroes

31 October 2017

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Dmitry Medvedev lays a wreath at the Monument to the People’s Heroes

The Monument to the People’s Heroes is located in the central part of Tiananmen Square. The 38-metre monument was built between 1952-1958 to honour the memory of the heroes who perished in the struggle of the Chinese people in the 19^th and 20^th centuries. The base has eight large bas reliefs carved out of white marble depicting the revolutionary struggle of the Chinese people from the First Opium War of 1840 to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment annually calculates the permissible amount of production of ozone-depleting substances in Russia and the amount of specific substances contained in the permissible amount of consumption of ozone-depleting substances. This is necessary, among other things, in order to fulfil Russia’s obligations under the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

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The paper was submitted by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in order to implement Government Resolution No. 228 of 24 March 2014, On State Regulation of Consumption and Circulation of Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (hereinafter referred to as “Resolution No. 228”).

The Montreal Protocol provides for the phased-in reduction of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) beginning in 2004 until the complete phase-out in 2030.

In accordance with Resolution No. 228, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment annually calculates the permissible amount of ODS in Russia and the number of specific ODS in the permissible consumption of ODS in Russia (hereinafter referred to as “annual calculations.”)

According to the procedure governing such annual calculations approved by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, these indicators are determined on the basis of information and proposals received from the Ministry of Industry and Trade, legal entities, sole proprietors engaged in manufacturing or planning to produce ODS in Russia and importing (planning to import) ODS into Russia.

In 2015-2019, the permissible consumption of ODS in Russia amounts to 399.69 tonnes of ozone-depleting potential.

The signed resolution establishes the amounts of production and consumption for each ozone-depleting substance with account taken of the total permissible amount of consumption for 2018.

The decisions taken are necessary for Russia to fulfil its obligations under the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

Dmitry Medvedev chaired a meeting of the Advisory Council on 16 October 2017. As a result of the meeting, the following decisions were made and instructions issued (Resolution DM-P13-7063 of 23 October 2017):

To approve a list of priority areas of activity of the Foreign Investment Advisory Council (FIAC) for 2018 as specified in the Communique adopted at the 31^st meeting of the FIAC.

The Economic Development Ministry (Maxim Oreshkin) and federal executive agencies will ensure the consideration of proposals and recommendations of the FIAC with the participation of organisations concerned.

The results are to be reported to the Government of the Russian Federation in July 2018.

The Finance Ministry (Anton Siluanov), the Economic Development Ministry (Maxim Oreshnkin) and the Federal Customs Service (Vladimir Bulavin), together with the working group on improving customs legislation of the Advisory Council on Foreign Investment, will consider simplifying the procedure for the identification of foreign goods in processed products, taking into account international experience and, if necessary, will submit to the Russian Government, before 1 December 2017, proposals on amending Russian legislation.

The Ministry of Agriculture (Allexander Tkachev) and the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision (Sergei Dankvert) will inform economic entities with any property ownership status (including educational and health care institutions and trade organisations) handling goods subject to national veterinary oversight (supervision) regarding the introduction of online veterinary certification.

The results are to be reported to the Russian Government by 5 December 2017.

The Ministry of Agriculture (Alexander Tkachev), the Economic Development Ministry (Maxim Oreshkin), the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision (Sergei Dankvert) and the Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Anna Popova), jointly with industrial unions (associations) and organisations producing finished (processed) dairy products, will consider the expediency of accompanying such products with supporting veterinary documents.

The results are to be reported to the Russian Government by 14 December, 2017.

The Finance Ministry (Anton Siluanov), the Ministry of Health (Veronika Skvortsova), the Ministry of Trade and Industry (Denis Manturov) and the Federal Antimonopoly Service (Igor Artemyev), jointly with federal executive agencies and organisations concerned, will consider the advisability of buying innovative patented medications by signing contracts without holding online auctions.

The results are to be reported to the Russian Government by 28 November 2017.

The Finance Ministry (Anton Siluanov) and the Labour Ministry (Maxim Topilin) will analyse the practice of granting preferences to national public organisations of people with disabilities in making procurements for state and municipal needs, including in cases when they are not the manufacturers of procured products.

The results are to be reported to the Russian Government by 19 December 2017.

The Ministry of Health (Veronika Skvortsova), the Ministry of Trade and Industry (Denis Manturov) and the Federal Antimonopoly Service (Igor Artemyev), together with federal executive agencies and organisations concerned and taking into account international experience, will consider the possibility of introducing a fast-track procedure for state registration of innovative medications.

The results are to be reported to the Russian Government by 28 November 2017.

The Ministry of Health (Veronika Skvortsova), the Ministry of Trade and Industry (Denis Manturov), the Federal Antimonopoly Service (Igor Artemyev) and the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Grigory Ivliyev), together with federal executive agencies and organisations concerned, will analyse law enforcement practice in protecting exclusive rights to inventions related to medications and submit to the Russian Government, by 14 March 2018, coordinated proposals with regard to streamlining legislation in this sphere.

The Finance Ministry (Anton Siluanov), the Energy Ministry (Alexander Novak) and the Economic Development Ministry (Maxim Oreshkin), together with federal executive agencies, will look into the possibility of easing the tax burden by reducing the mineral extraction tax for Gazprom’s joint projects with a share of foreign investment.

The results are to be reported to the Russian Government.

The Finance Ministry (Anton Siluanov), in formulating, together with the Bank of Russia and the auditing community, the Russian Government’s position on draft Federal Law No. 273179-7 “On amending certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation (with regard to granting the Bank of Russia auditing powers),” will pay special attention to incorporating provisions ensuring the exhaustive description of norms with regard to granting the Bank of Russia regulatory, control and auditing supervisory powers, as well as preventing a conflict of interests in exercising banking regulation and oversight, regulation, control and oversight of financial markets and regulation control and oversight of auditing activity.

The results are to be reported to the Russian Government.

The Ministry of Communications and Mass Media (Nikolai Nikiforov), the Economic Development Ministry (Maxim Oreshkin), the Energy Ministry (Alexander Novak) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry (Denis Manturov), together with federal executive agencies and with the participation of the autonomous non-profit organisation Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation and the autonomous non-profit organisation Digital Economy, will submit to the Russian Government coordinated proposals regarding mechanisms of cooperation with foreign companies in implementing the Digital Economy of the Russian Federation programme.