**(2)RUSSIA-MOSCOW-PUTIN-ECONOMY

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**(2)RUSSIA-MOSCOW-PUTIN-ECONOMY
081120) -- MOSCOW, Nov. 20, 2008 -- Russian Prime Minister and leader of the ruling United Russia party Vladimir Putin speaks at the 10th United Russia party congress in Moscow, Russia, Nov. 20, 2008. Vladimir Putin proposes suggestions during his speech such as more purchasing of major Russian company bonds by domestic commercial banks, reducing the fiscal tax rate on small enterprises, allowing companies constructing especially important facilities to issue infrastructural bonds under the Russian Federation's guarantees, preventing high inflation and sharp ruble fluctuations, increasing the unemployment benefits, to survive in ongoing financial and economic crisis. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan) (lyx