MOSCOW -- The Russian government needs to come up with a more detailed economic recovery plan, Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov said Thursday, just a day after the International Monetary Fund chief left without promising Moscow any new loans.

Primakov's government has produced an anti-crisis program, but the measures have not reversed the country's economic slide, nor have they found favor with the IMF or other international lenders who have frozen loans to Russia.Primakov acknowledged the need to spell out the government's intentions more clearly and called on the Cabinet to do so.

"Without such a concrete action plan, containing concrete tasks and time frames, the government's steps will look merely like intentions," Primakov said.

IMF chief Michel Camdessus left Russia Wednesday after meeting with Primakov and other top officials. He praised Primakov's "pragmatic" course in dealing with the crisis but said an IMF team would have to return to Russia next month for further negotiations on loans.

The IMF organized a $22.6 billion bailout package this summer, but only about $5 billion was disbursed before Russia's economic crisis hit in August and the loans were frozen.

The IMF has indicated that Russia's draft budget for next year appears overly optimistic, and it also does not like moves to increase the government's role in the economy.

Economics Minister Andrei Shapovalyants said the new plan envisages drafting more than 80 bills in the next two months to help revive the moribund economy.

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They will detail the government's intentions to subsidize some key industries, pay off wage and pension debts, index some incomes, restructure the banking system and tighten currency controls, he said.

Some of these measures have been criticized by the IMF, but Shapovalyants said he hoped that will not prove a stumbling block to securing the loans. He added that Russia continues to count on IMF loans as it drafts next year's budget.

Meanwhile, the speaker of Russia's parliament lashed out at the IMF for refusing to release loans.

"Look how they are mocking our government, sending one group after another," said Gennady Seleznyov, a Communist who serves as speaker for the State Duma, parliament's lower house.

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