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Yabloko will support the draft federal budget for 2002 in the third reading
Press release, November 29, 2001
The Yabloko faction in the State Duma will support the draft federal budget for 2002 in the third reading. Such a decision was adopted at the meeting of the faction on November 29, 2001. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin also participated in this meeting.

 

Sergei Ivanenko: the budget has a strong foundation, therefore it can handle a drop in oil prices
Press release, November 27, 2001
On Tuesday, November 27, 2001, the First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction Sergei Ivanenko said in an interview with journalists that, in his opinion, the draft budget for 2002 would be adopted by the lower chamber in the third reading on Friday.

 

Yabloko supports the actions of the President of the Russian Federation on the international arena and sets economic proposals
Press release, October 24, 2001

The Yabloko party supports the international policies adopted by the President of the Russian Federation regarding the acts of terror in the USA on September 11, 2001. This was confirmed by the leader of the Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky after the meeting of the President of Russia with the leaders of the Duma factions and deputies groups which took place in the Kremlin on October 23, 2001.

 

Sergei Ivanenko: the military actions in Afghanistan will not lead to a collapse of the world economy

Press release, October 08,2001

The military actions in Afghanistan will not lead to a collapse of the world economy and sharp fluctuations in the dollar rate. This opinion was expressed by the Deputy head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma Sergei Ivanenko in an interview with journalists on Monday, October 8, 2001.

 

Yabloko proposes that the government spend additional 2002 budget revenues on the most important strategic tasks of the country
Press release, September 27,2001
The draft federal budget for 2002 amended by the government has taken into consideration virtually all of Yabloko’s proposals regarding additional revenues (that are unrelated to oil prices), that were not included in the first variant of the budget.

 

The Yabloko faction submitted to the government an alternative draft budget for 2002

Press release, September 27,2001
On September 27, 2001, the Yabloko faction submitted to the government an alternative draft budget for 2002.
The Yabloko faction has been drafting alternative budgets for three
years now. This time a long-term plan for the next three years has been added to Yabloko s draft. The document is entitled Proposals of the Yabloko Association for Changes to the Financial Plan, as well as Corrections to the Main Directions of the Tax and Budget Policies of the Government of the Russian Federation for 2002-2004 .

 

Grigory Yavlinsky: the Yabloko faction may support the main parameters of the draft budget for 2002 in the first reading
Press release, September 27, 2001
The Yabloko faction may support the main parameters of the draft budget for 2002 in the first reading, said the leader of the Yabloko faction Grigory Yavlinsky at press conference in Moscow on Thursday, September 27, 2001.

 

Grigory Yavlinsky is positive about the development of a multi-party system in Russia
Press release, September 27, 2001
“More parties that are good and different!” said Yavlinsky in response to a question about his attitude to the process of party-building in Russia at a press conference on Thursday September 27, 2001.

 

Draft budget for 2002 is about five thousand pages long
Press release, August 27, 2001

The draft budget for 2002 is about five thousand pages long, First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma Sergei Ivanenko told journalists. According to Ivanenko, one copy of this document, including all the appendices, was brought to the Duma in three boxes of paper.

 

Yabloko welcomes the reduction in the “lobbyist items” in the budget for 2002
Press release, August 27, 2001
The Yabloko faction of the State Duma welcomes the reduction in the so-called “lobbyist items” in the draft budget for 2002, said First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction Sergei Ivanenko in an interview with journalists on Monday August 27, 2001. According to Ivanenko, one of the positive aspects of the draft budget concerns the reduction of financing in “lobbyist items”, in particular, agriculture, industry and investment programmes.

 

Yabloko will prepare alternative draft budget for 2002
Press release, August 14, 2001
The Yabloko faction will develop and submit to the State Duma an alternative draft federal budget for 2002; one of the key aspects of Yabloko’s draft will be the financing of military reform. This statement was made for the press by Sergei Ivanenko, Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma.

Publications

Government to Review Budget 2002
Vedomosti, May 16, 2002
The government is seeking money to raise wages for the military and state employees in the provinces. On May 15, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov announced that the federal budget for 2002 would be revised, and unplanned expenditures would be covered through additional revenues. Duma deputies do not believe this and say that this is impossible to do without sequestration, at least a small amount for the time being.

 

State Duma to pass government's variant of the draft budget for 2002 in first reading
RIA "Novosti", August 29, 2001
The State Duma will pass the government draft of the federal budget for 2002 in the first reading and approve the key budget parameters and macroeconomic indicators. This opinion was expressed by Sergei Ivanenko, deputy head of the liberal Yabloko faction in the Duma. As he said to RIA Novosti, in the present composition of the State Duma "there is a stable political majority which supports the government."

 

Yabloko welcomes the cutback in expenditures on “lobbyist items” in the federal budget for 2002
Samotlor-Express, August 29, 2001
The Yabloko faction of the State Duma welcomes the reduction in financing for so-called “lobbyist items” in the draft budget for 2002, declared the First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction Sergei Ivanenko on Monday August 27, 2001.
He also said that one of the positive aspects of the draft budget concern the reduction in financing for “lobbyist items”, in particular agriculture, industry and investment programmes.

 

Sergei Ivanenko: Yabloko drafts “finetuned” budget
By Olga Tropkina, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, August 16, 2001
...The government budget is a result of different “compromises”. In view of the sober ideas, for example, in the present budget, it obviously represents a result of aggregate pressures from different ministries, lobbyists, economists of different schools and political forces at federal and regional levels. When, however, we draft our version of the budget (something Yabloko has been doing annually since 1994), we proceed exclusively from economic viability, from real economic requirements, irrespective of the various external pressures. This is a “finetuned” budget, if you like, targeted at implementation of the economic policy that we believe to be necessary...