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The electronification of Russian regions

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All state services in the Russian regions are to be made available electronically by 2015, President Dmitry Medvedev underlined in a recent State Council session.

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The meeting, which was devoted to the development of information technologies, was attended by the governors and a number of cabinet ministers and high-ranking officials. It took place on 23 December.

The governors who do not cope with the mission will be dismissed, the president threatened in his speech, newspaper Kommersant reports.

According to Minister of Communication Igor Shchegolev, Russian small businesses today spend ten percent of their turnover on overcoming red tape and the Russian population altogether spend up to 25 million days per year on getting public services.

There are a total of about 1500 public services which will be made electronic by 2015, newspaper Kommersant writes.

Read more about the meeting at Kremlin.ru