Implementation of the federal job creation programme in the region and measures to support small- and medium-sized businesses were the subjects of discussion.

In Birobidzhan Dmitry Medvedev met with Jewish Autonomous Region’s small business representatives to discuss, among other issues, transportation costs, mortgages, and the fight against corruption.

Dmitry Medvedev signed federal laws on microfinance activities and microfinance institutions and on the specifics of property title alienation for real estate owned by federal or municipal authorities and rented by small businesses.

The Economic Development Minister briefed the President on Russia’s main macroeconomic indicators.

Dmitry Medvedev signed the Federal Law on Amending Article 10 of the Federal Law on Protecting the Rights of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs in the Process of State or Municipal Control (Supervision).