Moscow, 24: Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov considers it necessary to reorganize the work of the bureaucratic machine so that the government would be able to faster prepare the documents needed to fight the crisis.

"The bureaucratic machine is not meeting today's demands and so new decisions need to be taken," he said at a meeting of the board of the Economic Development Ministry (on 24 March).

He said that the government has not implemented many anti-crisis measures because the bureaucratic machine did not make it possible to do so quickly.

"We are used to a large number of approvals and rounds of visits to officials while preparing documents," Shuvalov said. He stressed that the materials prepared by the government should be processed quicker and following procedures different from those that everyone has become used to.

"We should work faster," he said.