Government strong to withstand pressure – Dvorkovich

(Interfax – MOSCOW, May 19, 2013) Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich has highly appraised the government’s performance in its first year and said interaction between the Cabinet and the Kremlin administration was efficient enough.

“I think a large amount of work has been done over the year and results have been achieved in some areas, although not in all,” Dvorkovich said in an interview with Rossiiskaya Gazeta.

Dvorkovich disagreed that the government has been undergoing “tremors”, but acknowledged that it remains under permanent pressure, given the necessity to make complicated decisions.

“In my opinion, as any other government, especially the government of a major state, the Russian government is under permanent pressure, although I don’t think our government is going through tremors. We have been withstanding pressure and we prepare, adopt and implement difficult decisions,” he said.

He confessed that, “the government has failed to attain some goals”.

But on the whole, “the government is working well, the mechanism is smoothly running and the plans we have set, as well as the tasks set by the president, are being implemented – some more, while others less successfully, but effectively on the whole,” has aid.

On interaction with the Kremlin aides, Dvorkovich said that “positions differ sometime, which is normal,” and that “such things happened before.” “Permanent and constructive interaction is the most important thing. It is present in most instances. The ideal is hard to attain. But a potential for greater efficiency and interaction is in place,” he said.