In the government residence of Gorky situated near Moscow, on May 18th the prime minister of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, met the head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Egor Borisov, and had a long conversation with him. As Construction.ru reported, via the press service of the Russian Cabinet of Ministers, Egor Borisov first of all told Dmitry Medvedev about the measures taken in the republic on the development of a banking system, mortgage lending, and leasing. Besides this, questions of the distribution of subsidies from the federal budget for implementation of the "Housing for the Russian Family" program were considered.The prime minister supported Egor Borisov's proposals on the construction of a cardio clinic and a rehabilitation center for disabled children in Yakutsk. He also gave an assignment to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation, Arkady Dvorkovich, on the preparation of mechanisms of the involvement of investors in the realization of construction of the Lena River Bridge on a concessionary basis.During the discussion of socio-economic development, the head of the region noted positive dynamics and emphasized that in the first quarter, Yakutia had maintained a leading position among the subjects of the Russian Federation in the execution of the state budget.
