Putin orders dismissal of officials over cost of building projects | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin demanded on Monday that the government prevent a further rise in spending on infrastructure projects and ordered the dismissal of the officials responsible for mounting expenses.
‘The principles of the formation of pricing should lead not to a rise, but rather to a decline in costs and a reduction in budget expenditure,’ he said, referring to large-scale state construction projects in connection with the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and the 2012 APEC summit in Vladivostok.”