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Russia: Government needs security service help ensure economic security
Interfax

Moscow, 28 January: The government expects assistance from the Federal Security Service [FSB] in tackling problems connected with ensuring economic security of the country, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said today addressing an expanded sitting of the FSB board.

"We still need the FSB to provide up-to-date information to the government and executive bodies that will make it possible to create a qualitative legal basis, to take decisions creating equal competition conditions, to develop business and create an attractive investment climate," Fradkov said.

According to him, the FSB's possibilities in terms of providing information can have a better use, "arm the management agencies and create conditions for economic growth rather than put up additional barriers for business development".

At the same time Fradkov particularly pointed out the inadmissibility of the possibilities of individual employees or units of the FSB being used to give preferences to some companies rather than others. "We will be fighting that in the same way as corruption," Fradkov said.

"Unless additional effort is taken in fighting corruption, the effect of measures in the economic sphere will be considerably lower," Fradkov stressed.