Dear citizens of Samara Region! Dear fellow countrymen! Happy New Year!

   All of us pin our hopes on this holiday: hopes of happiness, having right to dream and realizing our plans by painstaking and creative work. For overwhelming majority the New Year is the time to believe in quiet, well-to-do and worthy life; it’s time to believe in better future of children, safer, more humane and psychologically comfortable environment, where different people have equal opportunities to fulfil their dreams.

2006 year is demonstratable that long-run policy of Russian government is made taking into account the interests of every citizen. All the priority-driven national projects, which are successfully realized in Samara Region, are aimed to solve problems of ordinary Russian citizen.

In 2006 Samara Region achieved a success in economics, agriculture, business, in solving social and demographic problems, in municipal and rural improvements as well as in education, science and culture.

No doubt, positive changes in people’s perception come slower than they would like them to come. Nevertheless we have every reason at least for sober optimism.

For coming two years we’ll have to make a grave choice. But now thanks to positive changes in our life, we can do it without excess emotions and with common sense, which is based on the interest of ordinary citizen.

Dear fellow countrymen! Happy New Year! I wish you health, prosperity good luck and may your dreams and expectations come true!