Alexander Osipov: цитаты - Росконгресс

04.09.2024

EEF 2024

Today, I see the <...> challenge as being one related to providing resources for the master plans. <...> However, even more serious challenges exist. <...> First of all, all the main executive authorities and federal bodies are trying to redirect funds to master plans which had been allocated for other purposes. For example, in Trans-Baikal Territory, 60% of the population does not have access to centralized utilities. We have the second most severe climate after Yakutia, which means people have to carry water from outside in temperatures as low as 55°C, and throw wood into their stoves several times a day. Meanwhile, 40% of the utility systems are 80–100% worn out. And yet, we are being asked not to allocate funds there, but only towards master plans. This of course won’t bring about the socio-political results that were expected. Alternative solutions are clearly needed

11.09.2023

EEF 2023

New Logistics in the Far East: The "White Swan" of the Russian Economy

Capacity is growing at an uninterrupted rate. There is a reserve of capacity along the southern route. <…> Overall, the buildup of non-moving freight – a stationary wave – which had been forming since spring last year has now eased off at the border of Trans-Baikal Territory. We have moved to 24-hour operation at checkpoints, and there are no queues. However, freight turnover continues to grow at a constant rate

11.09.2023

EEF 2023

There Is No Place Like Home. Appeal of the Regions for Young People

We need a living environment. People want to live in a place where everything is bright and beautiful, all services are available, and there is a convenient urban environment with no need to wait in traffic jams

11.09.2023

EEF 2023

There Is No Place Like Home. Appeal of the Regions for Young People

Twenty to twenty-five thousand people aged 25 to 45–50 years come to us every year

07.09.2022

EEF 2022

Healthcare: Accessibility, Quality, Results

An excellent programme of modernization of primary care is being implemented. All the growth we see in 2021 is achieved primarily due to the work of the Ministry of Health and this programme. It will be completed in 2025, we will cover only 25–30% of facilities. It seems to me that the most honest thing is that we should extend it

07.09.2022

EEF 2022

Healthcare: Accessibility, Quality, Results

We have 1,400 facilities related to medical services in one way or another. 879 of these facilities are regularly visited by people. 410 of them – a third! – are made of wood, functioning for 56 years and longer. Under a 100 of facilities are in critical condition, 755 facilities need major repairs. There is a medical academy on the territory of the Trans-Baikal Territory, there are medical colleges. How do I attract people there, how do I get them to live and work there?

07.09.2022

EEF 2022

Healthcare: Accessibility, Quality, Results

First of all, healthcare is about people and for people. These are people who work there; what feeling and what mood they meet everyone with, and in what situation; and those people everything is done for. It seems to me that we can talk about education systems and so on, but if no one wants to work in the current conditions, we will always see an outflow of medical personnel from Siberia, the Far East, and Arctic regions

06.09.2022

EEF 2022

Tools for the Far East’s Global Competitiveness

As a rule, those companies that are engaged in mining have a fundamentally different marginality than those companies that are engaged in deep serious processing. These are two different businesses and two different revenue models. But at the same time, it turns out on the territory of the Far East that it is either necessary to build a processing plant near a place of extraction of raw materials, or someone will take this product to the global market and it will not become a resource for the industry of our country. <...> I think it would be a full-fledged solution to start the transition to processing all those huge fields that we are developing, to extend the regime of territories of advanced development to major fields, to projects for deep processing of primary extracted raw materials. So that we do not carry alloys or concentrates, but immediately build, for example, an enterprise for the production of pure copper in all forms, and then start producing products from this copper

06.09.2022

EEF 2022

Tools for the Far East’s Global Competitiveness

It is the same in the Far East so far – mostly we extract resources for their primary processing

06.09.2022

EEF 2022

New Life for Far Eastern Cities: Development Strategies

With regard to master plans, it is necessary to come up with some kind of tool for synchronization and comprehensive support for the implementation of projects

16.06.2022

SPIEF 2022

Generational Health at the Heart of Demographic Policy

Just as soon as the Internet reached rural areas, and people started living through social network patterns and scenarios, everything collapsed – there’s no more traditional life, nothing is being preserved. So I think that the most important thing today is having a conversation at the highest level about our values, our behaviours

08.09.2022

EEF 2022

Muravyov-Amursky 2030

In terms of management technology, I think the programme is brilliantly structured. I think [there needs to be] as much case study as possible - regional case study mainly

08.09.2022

EEF 2022

Muravyov-Amursky 2030

In fact, adapting people with good values, i.e. good, decent and intelligent people motivated to do something good for society, to solve some difficult tasks, to use some great opportunities, in the civil service is somehow always a very unpredictable process and, unfortunately, in over 50% of cases it has negative results

07.09.2022

EEF 2022

Crisis Management Portfolio for the Far East Regions and Regional Fiscal Sustainability

Prior to the presidential resolution of 2012–2013, the Far East was essentially sinking for the most part. However, following this resolution, it began to rise once more. So, how about we add a little sustainability, and economic and social infrastructure? Just a few more resources! We will work a little faster to pump out this water that’s flooding in

07.09.2022

EEF 2022

Crisis Management Portfolio for the Far East Regions and Regional Fiscal Sustainability

It’s crucial to simply allocate a billion or two each year. That’s much better than pouring money in later. Here’s a specific example: we don’t have money to properly maintain a school’s roof and drainage system, and with the temperatures we have, the entire school disintegrates. It gets completely inundated! Something gets into the foundation, and as a result, the entire school falls apart 3–4 years later. All that was needed was RUB 50,000–100,000 for maintenance, and now a new school needs to be built for RUB 1.5 billion! And it’s the same story with the roads...

07.09.2022

EEF 2022

Crisis Management Portfolio for the Far East Regions and Regional Fiscal Sustainability

What is a federal budget made up of? First of all, there are customs revenues. We sell hydrocarbons and the enormous amount of money we get goes into the federal budget. Then there is mineral extraction tax, VAT, and excise duties. Where does all this come from, and what does it all go on? On the very same gas, motor fuel, and electric power. It all goes somewhere. Then there’s production of goods... The vast majority of all this is produced in the Far East, Siberia, and the Arctic. And despite having this enormous RUB 25-trillion budget which is largely collected in this way year after year – I really don’t know what it is we’re doing! – we cannot solve an issue that would boil down to a few billion roubles

16.06.2022

SPIEF 2022

BRICS: Deepening Trade and Economic Cooperation

There is a possibility to expand frontier crossings, railway and road frontier crossings and thus to carry a substantial part of this freight turnover through the southern routes, the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Vladivostok – Moscow federal highway. A number of decisions have already been adopted on expanding and modernizing these crossing points

16.06.2022

SPIEF 2022

BRICS: Deepening Trade and Economic Cooperation

One hundred million tonnes of freight turnover with unfriendly countries are currently being redistributed. Most of it is being distributed to our trade with BRICS. Here, the industrial factory best prepared technologically is the Chinese side

02.09.2021

EEF 2021

Dollar-Free Model of the World Economy Integration: Supranational Currency and a New System of International Transactions as a Driver for the Regional and Global Trade Development

I think that most of the country’s regions have a peculiarity in their investment and economic development, and, of course, they all require large volumes of investment and infrastructure development through investment [...] Without normal infrastructure, it’s simply impossible to develop a single industry and ensure livelihoods

02.09.2021

EEF 2021

Dollar-Free Model of the World Economy Integration: Supranational Currency and a New System of International Transactions as a Driver for the Regional and Global Trade Development

With some of the richest subsoil and resources, the Transbaikal Territory is the poorest in terms of implementing them. Each time something happens – investment projects are suspended or existing enterprises go bankrupt. At the time when I took office in 2018, the economy of the Transbaikal Territory had a huge number of various unrealized – practically RUB 23 trillion – deposits in the unallocated [subsoil reserve] fund and in investment projects stuck in the implementation of investment projects. These projects were implemented only for foreign investments

02.09.2021

EEF 2021

The Development of Specially Protected National Areas and the Role of CSR in Ensuring Sustainable Development and Preserving the Unique Nature of the Far East

Today we have more than 10% of this vast territory [of Zabaikalsky Territory]] designated as specially protected areas, 4% of them have federal status, and everything is clear here with financing, with work, with the organization of work. We believe that we need to continue building up and preserving the natural riches of this regional territory. But since 70% of the regions in the Far East are severely underfunded, and one of the most underfunded is the Zabaykalsky Territory, of course, we have an acute lack of resources to develop such vast areas properly and properly maintain flora and fauna and carry out all development activities

02.09.2021

EEF 2021

The Development of Specially Protected National Areas and the Role of CSR in Ensuring Sustainable Development and Preserving the Unique Nature of the Far East

For us, cooperation with major companies, such as Norilsk Nickel, Metallinvest Holding... and so on, is of fundamental importance. I am glad to see that it is not 'forced’. I see a real need for managers, executives, beneficiaries of companies who do it with pleasure, with their own initiative, without any pinches and pulls from our side

02.09.2021

EEF 2021

Budget Justice: Who Lives Well in Russia?

These expenses related to housing, utilities, and preparing for winter are inextricably linked to our way of life here. Perhaps somewhere in the south, such as the North Caucasian Federal District, these factors are of little importance, and can be sufficiently funded in some other way. However, for us, they are serious aspects, which carry real risks for the people living here

02.09.2021

EEF 2021

Budget Justice: Who Lives Well in Russia?

A range of crucial factors are ignored completely when allocating budget equalization grants. For Siberia and the Far East, compensating expenses on housing and utilities is absolutely key, yet it is not considered at all. Preparations for winter are similarly not factored in

02.09.2021

EEF 2021

Budget Justice: Who Lives Well in Russia?

Repairs for social amenities are not taken into consideration at all. <...> We have [in the region – ed.] 600 schools, and every year we need to build 15–20 schools to replace those which are 50–70 years old

02.09.2021

EEF 2021

Competing for Investment: How to Win

We are fully aware that two important areas currently suffer from a lack of proper incentives. The first is processing. We extract a huge amount of resources, and doing so is profitable. Once this is done, it is profitable to ship them virtually in their raw form, both via eastern ports, and via land borders with China and Southeast Asian nations. <…> However, it is not profitable to process these resources in Trainsbaikal Territory itself. Consequently, we build workers’ settlements and produce subsoil resources which could serve as a source of long-term development, but we do not build industrial facilities. The second area concerns jobs in remote regions. Transbaikal Territory is home to 1,050,000 people. Of that figure, 70% live in remote rural areas as a rule, where it is very difficult to create jobs. The current system, with advanced special economic zones, does not allow for the necessary support and procedures to create jobs in these remote areas

02.09.2021

EEF 2021

Competing for Investment: How to Win

Incentive regimes are key to achieving economic growth in the Far East. We understand how vast this region is, what immense riches exist, and what complex challenges are posed in terms of construction and development. To this day, we have been unable to put all the necessary amenities and infrastructure in place. And of course, without creating a serious difference in potential, without expending energy on the Far East’s economic model, and without any funding other than from the public purse, we will be unable move this region forward

03.06.2021

SPIEF 2021

Economic Mythology and the Problem of Sustainable Development

Let’s take regional or infrastructure development with low return rates. For example, return rates for a dam – the main facility for a hydropower plant – are 40–50 years at best. Who will give money for such a long time? This is why the issue of national sovereignty in currency issue for long-term projects is highly relevant

05.09.2019

EEF 2019

Increasing the Investment Appeal of the Far East

Our financial sector density is very low; we should have established institutions years ago. Lack of funding has a big impact on any development plans

05.09.2019

EEF 2019

Increasing the Investment Appeal of the Far East

In the first half of this year, a long-term negative economic trend finally reversed. <...> This year, for the first time we see the GDP grow by almost 5%, industrial production grew by 2.5%. <...> Unemployment decreased by 1%

04.09.2019

EEF 2019

Preferential Regimes for Investors: Current Progress and New Challenges

The most important thing about this mechanism [ASEZs – ed.] is something that isn’t written in a single document anywhere, but which is clearly evident today. It is that people in various places and jobs, people in various ministries view the residents’ or potential residents’ investment projects as their ‘children’. Every day, lobbyists and promoters look for ways to help residents implement their projects