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A series of one person pickets under the slogan “Stop feeding state owned corporations!”
took place by the Federation Council which had to adopt changes
into the state budget.
Five YABLOKO activists held placards “Stop stealing money
from the budget!’, “Where is an account on earlier spendings?”
and “Spend money on budget sector workers rather than on building
another Fukushima in Turkey!”
Federal security officers took down passport data of the
activists and prohibited them to take photos threatening to
confiscate the cameras. However, they could not give any reasons
why taking photographs of the action should be prohibited,
and the activists took pictures quite freely.
The activists demand that the remaining balance of the federal
budget should be allotted to the salaries of budget workers
(including teachers and doctors) rather than state-owned corporations.
The Federation Council plans to approve redistribution of
the balance; whereas state owned corporations should receive
huge amounts of funds. Thus, Rosatom (the nuclear ministry)
will receive RUR 23.5 bln, Rosnano (the agency on nano technologies)
RUR 22.2 bln and the Russian Railroads – RUR 44.5 bln.
Sergei Mitrokhin commented on such redistribution of funds
in his blog: “It is the finest hour of the state owned corporations!”
It has been already announced that Rosatom is going to build
with these additional funds a nuclear power station in Turkey
which has recently experienced a devastating earthquake. Mitrokhin
also writes that it is unclear how Rosnano and the Russian
Railroads are going to spend the money, looks like it is “a
top secret of the budget”.
See also:
YABLOKO
Against Corruption
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