Mishustin's Cabinet agenda Pensions, resorts and grants

Oct 7

Shishkin covers today's Cabinet meeting, including Mishustin's birthday greeting to Putin. He describes Donbas militia and people's-militia veterans from 2014 lacking service records; Mishustin presents a bill giving an interagency commission additional powers to verify undocumented military/equivalent service for pensions. The reporter attributes the initiative to Putin, without claiming parliamentary enactment. Mishustin describes nearly three billion rubles for utility networks and roads at Lago-Naki, Magic Baikal and Zavidovo, not completed construction. Two government-established science scholarships, Kurchatov and Alexandrov, cover physics/radiochemistry and nuclear/electrical/thermal power engineering. Monthly payments are 30,000 rubles for students and 50,000 for postgraduates, with academic/research eligibility, ministry competition and Kurchatov Institute support; first recipients are to be selected this year.

Mishustin presents a bill expanding an interagency commission's powers to verify undocumented military/equivalent service for pensions. Shishkin describes Donbas militia and people's-militia veterans from 2014 unable to prove their service and says Putin initiated amendments. Parliamentary enactment and completed individual pension awards are not established.