By Ben Aris in Berlin The Kremlin is back at the drawing board while continuing improving the health of the Russian economy by updating the 12 National Projects that were launched in 2019 and are designed to improve the lives of average Russians. During his state of the nation speech Putin put forward a raft of new projects for the National Projects 2.0 that will go down well with the voting public. Putin proposed to extend the budget planning from the current three years to six to improve the long-term planning of the state finances. The current three-year planning period and the use of the s…
