RF govt to discuss sale of state property Tuesday.

MOSCOW, November 24 (Itar-Tass) - The government of the Russian
Federation (RF) meets here on Tuesday to examine a forecast plan for
privatization in 2010 and basic orientations for 2011 and 2012.
Reports on the subject are to be made by Elvira Nabiullina, Minister
of Economic Development, and Yuri Petrov, Director of the Federal Agency
for Management of Federal Property.
It is planned that revenue from the sale of state property will amount
to about 77,000 million roubles next year. In the process, 55,000 million
roubles are to be gained resultant of the sale of 14 joint-stock
companies, which will be struck off the list of strategic enterprises.
Besides, the government is to suggest the privatization of 449 joint-stock
companies and about 250 Federal state-run unitary enterprises. The TGK-5
and the SG-Trans (about 8,000 million roubles) are the largest
non-strategic assets that the State plans to sell.
Alexei Kudrin, Vice-Premier and Minister of Finance, is to tell those
present about budget performance within the first nine months of 2009 and
the distribution of subsidies to ensure the balanced nature of regional
budgets, and will also suggest introducing amendments to legislation in
view of the preparation of a budget for 2010-2012.
In the January-September period, Federal budget revenue ran at
5,114,000 million roubles, expenditure amounted to 6,442,000 million
roubles and deficit was 1,372,000 million roubles. Gross domestic product
amounted to 28,479,000 million roubles, or 8.6 percent lower than that in
the corresponding period of last year. Consumer prices of goods and
services within the nine months rose by 11 percent, on average.
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