February 24, 2010

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

Svetlana Sleptsovafrom Khanty-Mansiysk became an  Olympic Champion in relay!

“I am so proud that I could bring a gold medal to Khanty-Mansiysk as everyone had been waiting for it and believed in me”, - she said just after the relay.

Governor of Ugra Alexander Filipenko was one of the first who congratulated Svetlana upon the victory: “I will not be mistaken to say that most of people of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug did not sleep  that night and believed in you and combined team of Russia. We were waiting for a gold medal! Now Svetlana, you are a member of the UgraOlympic  champions family! We look forward to meeting you at home”.

Svetlana Sleptsova is 23 years old, her native town is Khanty-Mansiysk, she is the World Champion in relay (2009), bronze medal winner of the World Championships in mixed relay (2008), winner of stages of the World Cup, repeated champion of Russis. She participates in the Olympic Games for the first time.

February 24, 2010

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

Closing the meeting of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug Government, Governor of Ugra Alexander Filipenko thanked everyone for fruitful activities, for support he had felt for years of joint work: “We achieved good results of the region’s development. President of the country highly assessed it while our last meeting. We managed to do much and it made it possible to survive in two great world economic crises, political changes, other difficult periods of our country’s history and history of Ugra. It is not just my merit but also of the regional government, all people of Ugra. We set priorities correctly and achieved goals. I am confident that Ugra has been, is and will be the key economic basis of Russia”, - said Alexander Filipenko.

February 24, 2010

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

The economic development of Ugra in 2009 was not gradual and was influenced by the world financial crisis. Sharp worsening of foreign economic conditions, cessation of the bank credit resulted in great reduction of investment activities, stagnation of industry, unemployment growth. But the dynamics of basic macroeconomic indicators proves the preservation of achieved results and allows to assess the situation in the region as stable.

Director of the Economic Policy Department LyubovSemeshko said about that at the meeting of the Okrug Government today.

Based on the information of Rosstat, the economic decline  of the region in 2009 was less than it had been expected and made 1,4 %, this indicator  in the Russian Federation is equal to 10,8 %. In 2009 the number of permanent population  grew by 1,1 %, natural increase of the population grew by 6,1 %,  wood-working production output grew by 2,3 % in comparable prices, production output and electric energy, gas and water  distribution by 5,7 %. Monthly nominal salary per employee has increased and amounts to 38,2ths.  rubles what is higher by 4,5 times than the living standard. The average income per pensioner has increased and amounts to 9864,9 rubles what exceeds the level of living standard by 1,5 times.

Governor of Ugra Alexander Filipenko emphasized that the government coped with the main task – provision of stability in the region.

Governor said that about the real salary decline in 2009 by 7-8 %.

In his opinion the territory is ready for post-crisis period: “The year of 2010 and especially 2011 will be complicated in spite of the present  relatively favorable conjuncture of prices for our main product – oil. But we could forecast the situation and formed the regional budget correctly what allows us to look into the future optimistically”.

In Governor’s opinion we should not forget about measures to be undertaken for more dynamic modernization of real sector of economy, small and middle business: “We should improve cooperation with transnational companies which work in the region, should determine how to increase their contribution into the development of the Autonomous Okrug. Maybe at the account of taxes. The strategic program has been adopted already, it should be implemented step by step what will make it possible not to reduce the investment interest towards the northern territory”, - resumed Alexander Filipenko.

February 24, 2010

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

Today, on February 24, Governor of Ugra Alexander Filipenko chaired the Mayors meeting. The agenda included the issues, connected with the implementation of the municipal budgets in 2009 and co-financing of the construction of municipal property facilities.Opening the meeting, Alexander Filipenko assessed the situation with the Okrug  budget and municipal budgets implementation. Abnormal frosts in Ugra since last November influenced the social and economic development of the region. “The beginning of the year was difficult due to some objective reasons in our territory. Severe frosts influenced the sustainable development of many industries and first of all influenced oil-producing industry, construction and wood logging industry. Oilmen are achieving the level of hydrocarbons production and I hope the situation will become better in logging as well in the near future”.

Governor informed Mayors about the regional budget implementation. As for the beginning of February the  the budget grew by 6 billion rubles and over 9 billion rubles were spent. The difference was compensated at the account of money, remained in the budget last year (the  balance amounted to 14 billion rubles). “There are all pre-conditions to increase financial resources”.

The topic of actual interest in the near future is the election of mayors and deputies in some municipalities. The head of the region said that the most important task – the ability of local authorities “to convince people regardless of the political situation as the local governments are aimed at solving problems of concrete people”.