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The
Duma majority refused to increase financing of education
and science in 2003
Press Release, October 18,
2002
Chairman of the Duma Committee on Education
and Science, member of the YABLOKO faction Alexander
Shishlov expressed his regret that the Duma majority
refused to vote for the amendments on allotting additional
funds to the education and science sector. The amendments
were discussed on Friday, October 18, 2002.
The
"big four" factions in the Duma refused
to support education and science
Press Release, October 10, 2002
Chairman of the Duma Committee on Education and Science
and member of the YABLOKO faction Alexander Shishlov
expressed his regret that representatives of the deputies'
groups the "Unity", "Fatherland - All Russia", "People's
Deputy" and "Russia's Regions" had refused to support
the amendments of the Education Committee on allotting
additional funds to the education and science sector.
The amendments for the second reading of the draft
budget for 2003 were discussed during the meeting
of the State Duma Budget and Tax Committee on Thursday,
October 10, 2002.
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Grounds
for Optimism
Moscow Times, by Alexander Sokolowski, October 21,
2002
One can tell a lot about where a country's economy
is headed by looking at its budget. Since the budget
is essentially the resource framework for all of a
state's operations, it also serves as a barometer
of government efforts at economic and social reform.
On Friday, the State Duma passed the draft 2003 budget
in its second reading. Although the Duma must still
consider the budget in its third and fourth readings
before the draft is fully adopted by the lower house,
the budget's basic parameters and major spending priorities
have already been set.
"A
Word on the Budget"
Economy: the steps that have to be taken
www.yavlinsky.ru
by Grigory Yavlinsky, September 27, 2002
Existing economic mechanisms only achieve the very
narrow goal of maintaining the present [economic]
level, but fail to provide for medium-term economic
growth. In terms of solutions to the main problems
facing the country, the economic system has been in
a state of decline and has been slow to curb, despite
current growth, the country's problems that have been
snowballing .
Sergei
Ivanenko: There are no answers to the main questions
in the 8,836 pages of the 2003 budget
RosBusinessConsulting, October 1, 2002
An interview with Sergei Ivanenko, first deputy head
of the Yabloko Party's parliamentary group
Yabloko:
Budget 'Hydrocarbonated'
Moscow Times, By Valeria Korchagina, September 25,
2002
The State Duma's Yabloko faction presented
its annual alternative budget Tuesday while slamming
the government for once again drafting a "hydrocarbonated"
budget hooked on oil and gas.
A
Decisive Trip
Izvestia, by Alla Kreshchenskaya and Vyacheslav Sergeev,
September 7, 2002
A controversial presidential bill on combating extremism
was pushed through the State Duma by On June 6 the
Duma resolutely voted in favour of a law to counter
extremism in the first reading. The law was passed
despite its clearly draft" nature and the views of
some parties that this law Duma deputies believe that
implementation of Russia's 2003 budget will stabilize
Russia's reputation in the global money markets. Pro-government
factions of the Duma are so convinced that the draft
budget will pass easily in the autumn session of the
Duma that Unity leader Vladimir Pekhtin has planned
a trip to Brazil at the time of the reading of the
first reading of the draft budget. He intends to discuss
dams and dykes there.
Deputy
of the State Duma Mikhail Zadornov: Budget for 2003
is unfavourable towards regions
Rosbalt, August 30, 2002
Moscow August 30, 2002. The adoption by the State
Duma of the federal budget for 2003 in the government’s
version is unprofitable for Russia’s regions.
This opinion was expressed by Deputy Head of the Budget
Committee of the State Duma Mikhail Zadornov (YABLOKO)
at his meeting with journalists on Friday, August
30, 2002.
Deputy
of the State Duma Sergei Ivanenko: Government complacency
may cost Russia dearly
Rosbalt, August 26, 2002
Moscow, August 26, 2002. “The draft budget for
2003 demonstrates the apathetic approach of the Government
to the resolution of the country’s financial
and economic problems,” noted Deputy Head of
the YABLOKO faction in the State Duma Sergei Ivanenko
in an interview with the Rosbalt correspondent on
Monday.
Second
version of the draft budget under preparation
Vremya MN, August 27, 2002
The YABLOKO faction of the State Duma is ready to
submit its variant of the draft state budget for 2003
as an alternative to the governmental draft...
Alexei
Kudrin: Discussions of the draft budget for 2003 in
the State Duma will be tough
RIA Novosti, August 27, 2002
Leaders of the Duma factions and associations are
pleased with the results of their meeting with the
Russian president in the Kremlin...
Yabloko’s
Budget Will Ripe by Autumn
Vremya Novostei, July 4, 2002, By Viktor Khamrayev
By autumn the Yabloko faction of the State
Duma will prepare its own variant of the state budget
for 2003 as an alternative to the government’s
draft budget. Grigory Yavlinsky’s colleagues
have still not decided what their budget will focus
on in 2003. Priorities here may be education, military
reform or demographic problems. In the end, the choice
of priorities is not a financial task, it is only
“a problem of the political will of the authorities,”
explained deputy of the Duma Igor Artemyev who heads
Yabloko’s group for the development of the budget,
to Vremya Novostei. For example, when the authorities
set last year the task of conducting army reform as
soon as possible, according to Artemyev, an additional
1% of the revenue part of the budget for 2002 had
to be spent on defence.
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