MOSCOW. July 23 (Interfax-AVN) - Moscow Region Governor Boris Gromov is planning to expand the region's cooperation with the Armed Forces.
"At present the region provides materiel and social support to the Northern Fleet, Interior Ministry troops, units of the Baltic and Black Sea Fleets, Taman division and will do the same with the Kantemirov division in future," Gromov told reporters in Moscow after signing a cooperation agreement with the Space Troops.
The governor stressed that "the solution of several armed forces problems surely demands huge expenses but this is also a pleasant need to support the establishment of modern armed forces."
Gromov noted that all reached agreements between the Moscow region and Armed Forces units "are being successfully implemented."
Speaking about the problem of Russian servicemen salaries Gromov stressed that "the level of life support to the servicemen does not correspond to their purposes, nature of complicated and responsible tasks they accomplish." "I am satisfied with the fact that the country's leader and government understand those problems and the process aimed at increasing the level of life support to the servicemen already started," Gromov said.
"At the same time the region will take urgent measures to return high social status to people in straps and their family members," the governor added.