“We do not have such plans,” RIA Novosti quoted Topilin as saying.

He also noted that data on the outflow of residents from the northern regions in connection with changes in pension legislation are not true.

On November 12, Nikolai Kharitonov, the head of the State Duma committee on regional politics, problems of the North and the Far East, announced the possible return to his former retirement age in the Far Eastern Federal District.

In stated the absence of any position regarding the initiative on retirement age in the Far East.