5th Duma to hear a report on govt activities Wed

MOSCOW, April 20 (Itar-Tass) - The State Duma lower house of the
Russian parliament on Wednesday will hear an annual report, the last one
before the start of an election campaign, on government activities. The
date of the presentation of the report by Premier Vladimir Putin coincides
with last year's. The report will be the central item on the agenda of the
meeting ofthe House which does not intend "to limit the report
presentation time", House Speaker Boris Gryzlov said earlier.
According to the rules of procedure set by the House Council, after
the presentation of the report, members of Duma factions each will be
able to put three questions to the Head of Government (each question must
be asked within one minute) and then take the floor for ten minutes each.
Associations of MPs have already referred five written questions each to
the government. It is not necessarily that the Prime Minister will give
answers to those questions in his report but he is obliged to give them in
a written form.
It follows from the questions referred to Putin that the Premier is to
report on all major areas of the government's work without exception. The
United Russia party members concentrated primarily on soocial subjects:
plans in support of the teachers, young families, veteran workers, as well
as outlook for refinement of the housing-utilities sector management.
The Communist Party's five written quesions "are devoted mainly to
sectoral themes: a sowing campaign, aviation, education, defence sector,
and taxation system", said Ivan Melnikov, House Deputy Speaker from the
CPRF faction.
The Liberal Democrats would like to know the Premier's opinion about
various economic aspects. The Just Russia party members enquire about
indexation of wages and salaries of the public sector workers,andthe
staffing of the science and education sector.