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Russia plans to reduce the number of government civil servants

by YCPress

Moscow, November 16 Russian Prime Minister Mishustin said on the 16th that Russia plans to optimize and reform government institutions and reduce a certain number of government civil servants from January 1, 2021.

According to a communiqu issued on the Russian Federal Government website on the 16th, Mishustin said during a meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Government that day, according to the President’s mandate, the government plans to optimize government institutions from January 1 to April 1, 2021. reform.

According to this plan, the number of federal government civil servants will be reduced by 5%, and the number of local government civil servants will be reduced by 10%.

Mishustin said that Russia does not need a bloated government agency, but a government composed of professional and responsible experts. The optimization and reform of government institutions is to improve the efficiency of the government’s work, so that the government can focus on solving the people’s concerns, speed up economic development, and improve people’s living standards.

Mishustin said that the Russian Federal Government has analyzed the institutional setting and work of each government component and prepared a reform plan. The federal government will set up a special task force to promote this optimization reform.