We have spoken on many occasions of the need to achieve high economic growth as an absolute priority for our country. The annual address for 2003 set for the first time the goal of doubling gross domestic product within a decade.

I will recall once more Russia's most recent history. Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster …

Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.

Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs.

We still have a great amount of work to do in social development, including resolving one of the biggest challenges we face in this area, namely, reducing the …

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money tha…