But in 1997 control of the plant project effectively changed hands from the federal to the municipal government of Moscow.
His mother, a well-connected apparatchik in the municipal government, was unenthusiastic.
"We are trying to confirm the online rumors, " said a woman at the general office of Wuxi city's family planning committee, a department under the municipal government.
She went straight to the heart of the matter: The way the Municipal government was implementing its commitment to the garbage pickers was creating divisions among the various cooperatives.
Some 11.9 million people live in the bustling city, according to the latest census from 2001, though the municipal government says up to 14 million may call the city on the Arabian Sea home, with thousands of migrants arriving daily.
In a statement, the Shanghai municipal government said that the water in Huangpu River, which is a major source of drinking water for Shanghai, was safe.
For 2011, the Beijing Municipal Government decided to restrict the sales of new cars to 240, 000, against the 700, 000 new vehicles that were registered last year.
The Shanghai municipal government revealed its blueprints for the latest Disneyland Resort for the first time on Wednesday, the Xinhua news agency reported.
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Janic, the Koreni.rs proprietor, told Forbes by email it appears the shipment went first to the Albanian municipal government, which then distributed it such places as the Medical Center Gracanica.
"This is the only conglomerate under the control of the Beijing municipal government so that justifies a premium, but at the current level it's a bit expensive, " says Wilson Yung of Nikko Research Center in Hong Kong.
The book, published by the Beijing Municipal Government's Capital Ethic Development Office, is part of the department's effort to make Beijing more "civilized, " officials said.
An official for the media office of the Qianjiang municipal government said his office also had no comment.
The Shanghai municipal government will continue to increase land supply and reform property tax, mayor Han Zheng said Wednesday.
The Shanghai municipal government set new price guidelines on homes that qualify for preferential transaction tax treatment, widening a tax benefit for many home buyers in the city as developers struggle with falling sales there.
"China's government directly manages the country's education system, " says Liu Ji, executive president of the China Europe International Business School (ceibs) in Shanghai, a venture funded by the city's municipal government and the European Union.
Despite the fact that the programme received insufficient funding from the national government, partnerships established with the municipal and local governments have helped to sustain it.
They were joined by four officials from the Councillors Office of Shanghai Municipal Government.
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In fact, most essential government services are not provided by the federal government but by municipal and state governments.
With all of the conjecture about the true condition of state and local government finances and the likelihood of future municipal bond defaults, straight talk that you can trust comes at a premium.
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The municipal public sectors, such as government and the school system, are next, he says.
There is some evidence that the usual pattern of these loans is they find their way to the central government and the debts get rolled over by the local municipal banking system.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Convention, Chinese National Academy of Arts (China National Center for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage), International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the Auspices of UNESCO (CRIHAP), Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Hangzhou Municipal Government are planning to co-organize the West Lake Expo on Traditional Craftsmanship in the Asia-Pacific Region from 17 to 21 October 2013 in Hangzhou, China.
In Albacete, to the north, the power company cut the supply to municipal-owned buildings last week, fed up that the local government was simply ignoring its million-euro debt.
The first worry is that provincial and municipal administrations might soon be knocking at the door of central government, demanding funds to meet their statutory obligations.
Survey respondents noted the economy was cooling off, with municipal government activity lagging, discretionary spending per costumer falling, and input costs rising.
Some 72 of the 1, 854 municipal incinerators in Japan are emitting dangerous levels of the poison, a government report revealed last month.
The federal government may well step in to provide indirect support to the states through municipal bond guarantees for issuers who otherwise couldn't sell more debt, which may postpone into future years some of the grief building up.
Also, typically the state government steps in and takes over municipal operations.
Its representatives now occupy 57 of 109 seats (52%) in the Osaka prefectural government assembly and 33 of 86 seats (38%) in the Osaka municipal assembly.
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In 1665, England installed a municipal government in New York, formerly the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
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