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NTV television channel, "Segodnya" programme, September 24, 2003

Grigory Yavlinsky criticizes the draft budget for 2004

Anchor: Olga Belova

Anchor: The leader of YABLOKO, Grigory Yavlinsky, explained today why his faction in the State Duma had voted against the draft budget proposed by the government. According to Yavlinsky, the Cabinet has clearly understate budget revenue by hundreds of billions of roubles.

Yavlinsky: Professionally the budget is fine: as a financial document it is quite clear and reliable. However, it fails to formulate a single task that it could resolve in the coming year. We are conducting are own calculations on the financial resources available to the government next year. According to our estimates it transpires that the government will have 215 billion roubles more than it revealed for discussion in the Duma. Can you imagine what this means? This represents about 10% of the budget. This is no laughing matter, as 215 billion roubles is close to the amount required to enable us to start resolving the problem of poverty in the country next year.

 

See also:

Budget 2004

NTV television channel, "Segodnya" programme, September 24, 2003

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