(AGENPARL) – MOSCOW mer 15 marzo 2023

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr
Krasnov, comrades,

Reliable protection of the rights
and freedoms of our citizens and strengthening the rule of law are the fundamental prerequisites for Russia’s development as a law-based sovereign
state. The Prosecutor’s Office has a special role to play in ensuring these rights
and freedoms.

Today, at the annual Board meeting,
you will discuss the 2022 performance with account taken of the goals set out
in the Address to the Federal Assembly, and we will then determine priorities
for our future work.

Notably, this year marks the 300^th
anniversary of the Russian Prosecutor’s Office, and you have accomplished a lot
in the main areas of work. The rights of more than 1.1 million people who ran
into injustice, violation of legal regulations and infringement of their legal
rights were restored after the prosecutors intervened.

The important and much sought-after practice
of the governor’s one-on-one meetings with members of the public has expanded,
and, as before, the Prosecutor General oversaw the solution of the most important
issues. Mr Krasnov, please continue this practice in the future.

The concentrated efforts of the prosecutors
have reduced the number of inspections and unsubstantiated administrative
interference in economic and business life. There are positive dynamics in fighting extremism and terrorism and combatting crime and corruption.

Prosecutors’ protection of the fundamental rights of military personnel, participants and veterans of the special military operation, as well as their families, is of particular
importance.

This year, it is necessary to intensify
our efforts in this area and to do everything to make them substantive and targeted. Please deal with each specific problem individually, and respond without
delay to requests and complaints, if any. Participants in the special military
operation must be provided with monetary and other types of allowances in a timely manner. They should be able to receive medical and social aid, as well
as assistance in rehabilitation and employment promptly and in full as well. The families of our fallen comrades must have unfettered access to the necessary
support. Please establish close cooperation with the federal, regional, and local authorities.

Furthermore,
the Prosecutor General’s Office was one of the first government bodies to start
creating its territorial structures in the DPR, the LPR, and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions and to launch a mechanism for selecting and training personnel.
As we all know, the situation in these regions remains complicated. Therefore,
it is necessary to strengthen the local prosecution bodies by attracting
experienced, determined employees that are capable of promptly rendering legal
aid and effectively protecting the lawful interests of citizens. It is always
necessary to rely on local personnel, people who have proved their integrity, high
professionalism and devotion to our common Fatherland. There are plenty of such
people there.

Colleagues,

Speaking
about the tasks for the upcoming period, I would like to note that the prosecution authorities should exercise special supervision over the issues of ensuring the labour and social rights of citizens.

You know
that the state is carrying out large-scale programmes to facilitate employment.
The adopted measures reduced the level of unemployment to 3.6 percent in the beginning of this year. This is the lowest figure for all the past decades.
That said, your direct responsibility is to monitor the timely payment of wages
and salaries in all sectors and industries of the economy, and to effectively
use your powers in this respect.

Of course, it
is important to consistently eliminate violations in the payment of pensions and social allowances, especially those sent to support the most vulnerable strata – elderly and low-income people, as well as families with many children. We
must make these targeted instruments efficient at all levels.

At the previous
board meeting, the senior officials of the Prosecutor General’s Office were
instructed to create an oversight system for legal compliance in the implementation of measures to support people and the main social-oriented
programmes. I would like to ask you to talk about this separately and to report
on what you have done to address this task.

The Prosecutor’s
Office must pay the most serious attention to protecting the rights of minors.
I will talk about this separately. Some regions delayed due social payments.
Not all bodies are duly resolving
such an urgent and sensitive issue as providing housing to underage orphans.
There have been cases when underage orphans received flats unfit for living. I would like to ask you to respond immediately to these unacceptable practices.
Yes, the situation is difficult.
It is linked with the economy in every region, and we are fully aware of this. Yet, some things are absolutely
unacceptable, outrageous, to put it plainly. It is necessary to respond promptly
to bureaucratic humiliation and direct violations of law.

I will also
note that crimes against children and teenagers, unfortunately including
grievous and especially grievous crimes, are not declining. Your job is to respond
appropriately to this situation.

Colleagues,

As I have already
noted, in recent years, a real sanction aggression has been unleashed against
our country. You are well aware of this. But the Russian economy, Russian businesses
and entrepreneurs have been properly responding to all these challenges. And it
is important that Russian prosecutors contribute to this large effort, within
their authority, by helping to eliminate excessive administrative barriers,
among other things. We have one response to every step taken by ill-wishers and adversaries – we must expand economic freedoms. But, of course, it must be done
within legal boundaries. It is a delicate job, and I am asking you to set it up.

As you know, the Presidential
Address included a proposal to go back to revising a number of criminal laws on so-called economic crimes. I am counting on substantive work and proposals from
the Prosecutor General’s Office. At the same time, it is important to uphold the legality of the criminal cases initiated and meet reasonable timeframes for investigation, and to show integrity when
determining restrictive measures. This is your direct
responsibility at the initial stage of criminal proceedings.

I expect more effort
from you in such an important area as the fight against crime and corruption.
The Prosecutor’s Office is the main coordinator of law enforcement agencies in this work, and we need to continue doing it systematically and consistently.

Thanks to the measures taken over the past three years, the detection of crime, including
grave and especially grave crimes, has increased, and it is necessary to strive
to maintain this upward trend. Prosecutors must firmly and decisively fight
bribery and various corruption schemes.

I would like to ask you to pay special attention to legal oversight in the defence industry –
we must constantly keep these issues under review – first of all, the timely
fulfillment of obligations to supply the necessary weapons, equipment,
ammunition and gear for the needs of the special military operation. Please
ensure the precise implementation of every contract under the state defence
order, and the effective use of budget resources. We have allocated sufficient funds;
this is a lot of money, but we are doing this very carefully so as not to drain
finances from other industries, but the funds allocated must be spent
rationally and in strict accordance with law. In addition, prosecutors should
provide supervisory support for the modernisation of defence industry
enterprises, including projects to build up their capacity to produce
additional weapons. This work is being done on a grand scale. This is something
we desperately need now and will use in the future; we are not doing anything
excessive here, but what we are doing must be done very efficiently.

To be continued.

Fonte/Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/70678