President of Russia
  • Events
  • Structure
  • Videos and Photos
  • Documents
  • Contacts
  • Search
  • Search this website
President of Russia
Mobile version

President's
website
sections

  • Events
  • Structure
  • Videos and Photos
  • Documents
  • Contacts
  • Search
  • Search
  • For the Media
  • Subscribe
  • Directory
  • Version for People with Disabilities
  • Русский

President's
website
resources

  • President of RussiaCurrent resource
  • The Constitution of Russia
  • State Insignia
  • Address an appeal to the President
  • Vladimir Putin’s Personal Website

Official Internet Resources
of the President of Russia

  • Telegram Channel
  • Rutube Channel
  • YouTube Channel

Legal
and technical
information

  • About website
  • Using website content
  • Personal data of website users
  • Contact website team

All content on this site is licensed under

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Presidential Executive Office2025
Events

Meeting with Andrei Nikitin

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Andrei Nikitin, appointed to the post of acting governor of the Novgorod Region.

February 13, 2017
13:35
Novo-Ogaryovo, Moscow Region
With Andrei Nikitin, newly appointed Acting Governor of Novgorod Region.
With Andrei Nikitin, newly appointed Acting Governor of Novgorod Region.
Andrei Nikitin, newly appointed Acting Governor of Novgorod Region.
At a meeting with Andrei Nikitin, newly appointed Acting Governor of Novgorod Region.
2 of 3
Andrei Nikitin, newly appointed Acting Governor of Novgorod Region.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Nikitin, we have been working together for six years now?

Andrei Nikitin: That’s right.

Vladimir Putin: You have been at the head of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives since then.

The Agency has done much over this time to give economic development a new boost, and this is no exaggeration. You have accomplished much on concrete projects in important development areas and you work together very closely with the business community.

I know that you and your colleagues have been actively promoting the trades at the regional level lately, organising young people’s participation in international competitions and helping the regions to organise events at the regional level, including in Central Russia and in the Novgorod Region.

You have been actively developing your contacts with business community representatives in various regions lately, including the Novgorod Region.

How is this work and this cooperation going?

See also

Andrei Nikitin appointed Acting Governor of Novgorod Region
February 13, 2017

Andrei Nikitin: Mr President, only the business community itself can really show us which administrative barriers are hindering their work. We can carry out your set objective of reducing barriers for doing business only by working together with the businesspeople. What’s more, the businesspeople should evaluate the work that we and our colleagues in the regions are doing.

We have been very active in this area lately, including in the Northwest Federal District, working with our colleagues in Novgorod Region. We held a series of meetings recently and discussed their concerns and the ways for carrying out the decisions you approved at the State Council Presidium Meeting. We drafted a step-by-step plan, established an expert group, and work is actively underway in this area in the Novgorod Region.

We know too that there is serious work to do in the tourism sector in the Novgorod Region. This includes tourism-related professions too, and the people working in this sector. Vocational schools are starting to train young people for this sector, for service and production professions related to tourism.

A regional championship in this sector took place in the Novgorod Region this year, the first such championship within the WorldSkills system. We hope to see the first medallists in these trades at regional, federal district, and then national level. We are following this development and our colleagues are doing what they can to help.

Vladimir Putin: You know why we are meeting today. You know Novgorod Region’s significance in our history, our life today, and our economy, and you know the region’s potential. I want to appoint you acting governor of the region. I have consulted with the current governor on this matter.

What do you see as most important and promising with regard to the Novgorod Region and its particularities? Our country has many symbolic places, but the Novgorod Region holds a special place, given that is one of the cradles of our Russian land. How do you see the development prospects?

Andrei Nikitin: Mr President, what matters most is your trust, and the people’s trust, which I will have to earn in the region.

Novgorod Region is certainly very interesting from both the historical and logistics point of view. Essentially, it is a corridor between the two capital cities. I think the development priorities could probably be summed up as, first, the tourism industry, and second, the processing sector, which is the main cluster, employing the people living between Moscow and St Petersburg. These sectors could attract both Russian and foreign investment.

Novgorod has old merchant traditions, of course. Russia was known on world markets for several centuries through the efforts of Novgorod merchants. I think that aside from attracting investment, it is very important to remove as many barriers as we can, remove all barriers before those working in the Novgorod Region and give them the chance to develop small, medium, and even big business. I think that these are priorities as far as the economy goes.

As for public life, the social side, the main thing here is to listen to people. Following the model the Agency for Strategic Initiatives used in the regions, we need to listen to what the local people want above all in our urban development plans and our efforts to improve the quality of life.

Vladimir Putin: Yes, that’s the right approach.

<…>

Geography

  • Novgorod Region

Topics

  • Economy and finance
  • Regions
  • Social services

Persons

  • Nikitin Andrei

Publication status

Published in sections: News, Transcripts

Publication date: February 13, 2017, 13:35

Direct link: en.kremlin.ru/d/53867

Text version

NaN /
  • VK
  • Telegram
  • Ok
  • Выделить
Text
3
Photo

Share
Direct link
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/53867
Share
  • VK
  • Telegram
  • Ok
  • Send by email
  • Print
Send by email

Official Website of the President of Russia:

Meeting with Andrei Nikitin

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/53867

Last updated at February 14, 2017, 12:56

Официальные сетевые ресурсы

Президента России

Official Internet Resources

of the President of Russia

Русский Английский
  • For the Media
  • Version for People with Disabilities
  • Telegram Channel
  • Rutube Channel
  • YouTube Channel
  • Website of the President of Russia
  • State Insignia
  • Address an appeal to the President
  • Vladimir Putin’s Personal Website
  • Putin. 20 years

Presidential Executive Office
2025

BESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswy