Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will hold a traditional reception in
Ilyinka on Monday and will have a video conference with regional
reception offices - 83 of them will open that day, RIA Novosti
reports, citing the Kremlin.
The president had said earlier that the reception will take place at
least twice a year. The previous one was held in Blagoveshensk in July
2010. The president promised to restore the burned down country center
of children's art and ordered problems with mobile communication to be
solved in small villages. He pointed out to the governor a request of
a local to support the stationary corps of the children"s
health-improvement camp "Prometheus".
In Ilyinka the president had reception in July 2009. It was opened
after repair works in April 2009. It was Medvedev"s first reception of
citizens. He emphasized on control of the regional authorities.
In June last year Medvedev replaced his head of the department for
work with citizens. Mikhail Mikhaylovsky replaced Mikhail Mironov in
1991 as the head of the department.
Back then the press-secretary of the president Natalya Timakova
explained that the initiative was due to active work of the
president's blog.
In February Medvedev signed a decree turning the department for work
with citizens' complaints into a department for complaints of citizens
and organizations. The new responsibility of the structure is
organization of citizen reception and the commission of the president
for rehabilitation of the victims of political repressions. Twice a
year, high-ranking officials personally take part in receiving
complaints from citizens.
The president receives from 2500 to 3000 letters, telegrams and
internet requests daily. Most of the come from large cities, one of
ten of the letters concerns industry, construction, agriculture and
other spheres of economy.
Each person takes an average of 20-25 minutes, although the talks last
up to an hour.
The reception office operates from 9.30 to 16.45 on Saturday.
The reception is carried out via a video conference, using mobile
complexes to allow citizens to address officials without need to visit
Moscow.
