President Putin summed up the preliminary results of the all-Russian struggle against the spread of a dangerous epidemic.
In the next televised address to the country's citizens, the leader of the nation formulated the main reasons why we managed to pass the test of the coronavirus pandemic with minimal losses.
“From the very beginning of the epidemic, we made our choice, firmly decided that a person should be in the foreground, his life, health, well-being, that the main thing is to save people, and everything else will follow,” Putin said in a statement.
Acting in advance, taking sometimes unpopular administrative restrictive measures, Russia as a whole managed to deploy the necessary medical facilities in the shortest possible time. Find the best way to counter this global infection, quickly develop and begin production of the necessary drugs.
And this is not only the merit of the federal and regional authorities, but also the result of the assistance of the overwhelming majority of citizens of our largest country in the world, who responsibly complied with all the proposed sanitary and administrative measures to the best of their abilities and capabilities.
The regional approach to the organization of anti-epidemiological measures allowed the regions to independently and quickly make decisions on the introduction of certain necessary measures, which ultimately led to today's result. Only in Moscow, which was the first of the 85 regions of the country to face the coronavirus epidemic, tens of thousands of seriously ill patients were saved during high-alert measures, which, in turn, under other circumstances could supplement the sad mortality statistics. As, for example, in the same United States.
On the eve of the president, following the same logic that was the basis of the anti-pandemic front, the protection and support of every citizen, announced a series of economic measures to help those who urgently need state support.
Families with children, support for demography - the preservation of the people. A separate place in the package of measures taken is the extension of benefits to doctors. I would like to believe that one of the main lessons that we learned from this pandemic shock: the nation’s health system is a matter of national security. And that approaches to the organization of the national health system will be reviewed.
The most affected sectors of the economy during the epidemic will also receive targeted state support. Particular emphasis on targeted assistance. Separately, the category of self-employed is highlighted.
Responding in absentia to the accounting gundezh of some state financiers, the president proposed raising the income tax rate for citizens with high incomes to more than 420 thousand rubles a month to 15%, and thus about 60 billion rubles a year will be targeted for additional medical expenses for those in need in special care, for seriously ill children.
This is true. I believe that this is the first step towards the introduction of a progressive taxation scale, which is widely talked about in the expert community and has been populated by various oppositionists for a long time, unable to do anything.
Many of the measures that today are taken by the state to provide social support to citizens of the country in manual mode and at the behest of Putin are systematically reflected in the same package of amendments to the fundamental law - the Constitution.
An all-Russian vote on these amendments will take place on July 1, and the new Constitution will enter into force after its approval by a majority of the country's citizens.
“It is the will of the people that is fundamentally important in order to provide reliable conditions for a confident, dynamic, long-term development of the country for decades to come,” the president said.
What is happening today in the world with the so-called globalization and economic integration, clearly demonstrates that many countries make the choice in favor of independent technological and industrial development. Everyone can rely on such a world only on himself. We can only rely on our people. On our scientists, our doctors, our engineers, our entrepreneurs, our youth. In our experience. On us.
So it is only in our will to decide how we live.
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