OREANDA-NEWS. September 20, 2010. One of the goals the President set in his Budget Address in June this year was to reduce over the next three years the number of federal civil servants by up to 20 percent.

Mr Medvedev noted at the meeting that optimising the number of civil servants should not turn into simply a mechanical reduction, but must be linked together with redistribution of powers among the various bodies and levels and setting up the necessary mechanisms for identifying optimum numbers of civil servants.

The President instructed the Government and the Presidential Executive Office to prepare forecasts for optimising civil servant numbers over the next 3 to 5 years taking into account the budget’s financial possibilities.