Vladimir Putin started his new presidential term on Monday with a pledge to improve living standards massively through spending on healthcare and education and to breathe life into Russia’s stagnant economy.
In a decree signed just hours after his inauguration for another six years, Mr Putin ordered the government to work towards “breakthrough scientific and technological and socio-economic development”.
Analysts said the plan was a populist push short on detail about crucial structural reform, while some of the goals were utopian.
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