On July 3, 2012, ten activists of Youth YABLOKO led by
Kirill Goncharov, Chair of the Youth Faction, filed an application
to Yuri Chaika, Public Prosecutor General, demanding to investigate
the lawfulness of financing the Seliger Youth Forum and find
out why such huge budget funds are spent on an obvious political
order.
According to young YABLOKO activists, a clearly politically
and ideologically biased Forum "promotes intolerance
towards political opponents of the authorities" was financed
on such a grand scale by taxpayers' money. YABLOKO will also
apply to the Audit Chamber of the Russian Federation asking
to investigate the case.
Kirill Goncharov noted that Youth YABLOKO strongly condemned
spending of budget funds on this politically biased event
promoting political intolerance. We would like to remind
you that odious provocations against journalists, Kremlins
political opponents and human rights activists were launched
exactly by the Seliger Forum. For example, activists of some
youth organisations made a list of Russias enemies which
included many of our friends, he said.
It was disclosed that this summer Forum will get about 280
million roubles from the federal budget, as private sponsors
refused to finance the event. In spite of this fact, Forum
budget grew by 80 million roubles in 2012 as of 2011.
See also:
YABLOKO
Against Corruption
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