OREANDA-NEWS. On 03 September 2008 was announced, that the Government of the Russian Federation at its meeting on August 25, 2008 made the following decisions on the items on its agenda

1.On the distribution of subsidies to the budgets of the subjects of the Russian Federation in support of measures to ensure balanced budgets of the subjects of the Russian Federation in 2008

The Government Presidium passed a draft executive order of the Russian Government on the said issue.

2.On the draft federal law On Introducing Amendments to Article 1 of the Federal Law On Commemorating the Victory of the Soviet People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945

The Presidium of the Government of the Russian Federation has approved the draft federal law On Introducing Amendments to Article 1 of the Federal Law on Commemorating the Victory of the Soviet People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

3.On introducing amendments to the Statute on the Federal Tariffs Service

The Presidium of the Government of the Russian Federation has adopted a draft decree of the Government on the said issue.

4.On the holding of an International Conference on Road Safety sponsored by the United Nations in Moscow in 2009

The Presidium of the Government of the Russian Federation passed a draft executive order of the Government on the above issue.

*The decisions on the items on the agenda are made with due account of the remarks and proposals made at the Government meeting and are issued as official documents of the Government of the Russian Federation

August 28, 2008

Moscow