Donetsk, Dec 21 — DAN. The poverty level in Russia will have decreased to an all time low by the end of this year, but it has to be eventually reduced to zero, President Vladimir Putin said at a session of the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects on Thursday.
“Our economy must become an economy of skilled personnel and decent, high salaries, ” Putin said. “It is the key to raising people’s incomes and overcoming poverty problems.”
You know that the country has achieved certain results in this respect. “Actually, the word ‘poverty’ doesn’t sound good, but we do have poverty indicators. We’ll have them at an all-time low in 2023, ” he said.
However, poverty statistics have no value for people who live below the poverty line, so this figure must be reduced to zero, the head of state said.*jk