Medvedev Signs Decree Cutting Federal Workforce By 20%

[Sola_Fide]

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110103/162033799.html

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[fisharmor]

Good start! But the article says that they've gone up by almost 100% in the last 10 years, so a start is all that it is.
Not like anyone over here would have the stones to do anything like this. Nope, we'd rather just collapse the system.

[Zippyjuan]

Five percent this year- after nearly doubling over the previous five years.

According to the decree, the number of federal officials is to be reduced by 5% in 2011 and 2012 and then by 10% in 2013.

The number of federal officials in Russia almost doubled in the past five years from around 600,000 in 2005 to over 1.1 million in 2010.



At the end of that time (end of 2013), there will still be about 900,000 or a 50% increase since 2005.