The YABLOKO party has launched a unique project: now all
the government�s purchases of luxury cars can be tracked in
real time at the party website.
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin in his blog suggested a public
debate which could lead to developing a norm who of the state
servants should have a car, what the price of such a car can
be and how often such a state servant can replace the old
car be a new car.
At present yabloko.ru/auto has published information on 42
buyers of 145 luxury cars totaling RUR 1.5 bln. Last Friday,
the Presidential Administration announced that it was going
to purchase 60 BMW 7 Series, RUR 5 mln each. Also Oktabrskiy
Concert Hall in St.Petersburg is going to buy a Range Rover
for USD 5.5 mln. Among the regional authorities the most blatant
example came from penal colony � 1 in the Chelyabinsk region.
They needed a Land Cruiser for RUR 3.5 mln.
Sergei Mitrokhin stressed that access to this information
had been opened due to Federal Law � 94, developed by YABLOKO
activists working in the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service.
"Actually the State Duma Budget Committee should engage
in all these issues, but so far we do not have a normal parliament,
and anyone can take up this function,� Sergei Mitrokhin wrote
in his blog. Also Mitrokhin proposed that anyone believing
that a state body does not need purchasing a particular car,
should write a letter to the respective state body buying
a luxury good, as the law envisages that in this case a purchase
contract can be cancelled.
See also:
YABLOKO
Against Corruption
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