Interfax: Medvedev orders analyzing relocation of HQs of some state-own companies, government bodies to Far East – deputy PM

MOSCOW. Feb 5 (Interfax) – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has ordered analyzing the possibility of relocating the main offices of a number of major companies partly or wholly owned by the state and a number of federal government bodies to the Far East, Russian Deputy Prime Minister and presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev told journalists.

“The matter concerns the relocation of the main offices and transfer of the workforce, and in the case of state-own companies, the transfer of the tax base to the Far East,” Trutnev told journalists on Wednesday following a government conference hosted by the prime minister, which dealt with the Far East’s socioeconomic development.

Trutnev refrained from specifying the relocation of what companies and government bodies to the Far East could be considered, noting that these proposals would first be submitted to the government leadership.

The proposals should be drawn up by the next conference dealing with the Far East to take place in a month, he said.

Asked by journalists whether the relocation of the Russian capital to the Far East is being discussed with the aim of prioritizing the region’s development, Trutnev said he “didn’t hear anything about this.”

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