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The budget has the money to start tackling the main issues in the country: military reform, a qualitative improvement in education and judicial reform.

Yabloko faction to take final decision on voting on the draft budget on Friday

Yabloko plans to submit own budget draft to the Finance Minister

Alexei Kudrin notes that the views of the government and Yabloko coincide on many items of the draft budget for 2001

Grigory Yavlinsky: in certain circumstances the Yabloko faction may support the draft budget for 2001 at its first reading

The leadership of Yabloko is pleased that President had paid attention to Grigory Yavlinsky’s budget proposals

Mikhail Zadornov thinks that the rate of inflation stated in the budget-2001 is understated

Sergei Ivanenko: Yabloko and the Union of Right-Wing Forces to pool their forces in discussions of amendments to the budget-2001 in the State Duma

Press release, 20.10.2000
Yabloko responsible for improvements to the budget at second reading

The deputies of the Yabloko faction think that they have managed to improve the draft federal budget for the second reading. Consequently most of the faction will vote for the draft at the second reading.

The faction is satisfied that during negotiations with the government before a review of the budget at the second reading they managed to “legalise” 30% of additional non-oil revenues (from a total of 88 bln roubles) that had

been detected by the faction.

In accordance with the proposal of the Deputy Head of the faction Sergei

Ivanenko, Yabloko adopted a decision to revise the revenue part of the budget without returning to the first reading. It was decided to allot almost all proceeds from the profits tax (99%) to the regions. Accordingly, the expenditure of budget revenues (almost 28.6 bln roubles will be allotted to the regions) will be balanced by the additional revenues detected by Yabloko, which will be earmarked for the financing of priority items that were stated by the faction. Consequently, the following funds will be allocated in addition to the

- regions – 30 bln roubles. Therefore Russia reverts to a distribution of the funds between the Centre and the regions envisaged by the Budget Code (50:50);

- defence and military reform – 12.6 bln roubles;

- education – 3 bln roubles (the government promised to provide an additional 1.8 bln roubles from additional revenues, which corresponds completely to Yablokos demands);

- science – 1 bln roubles;

- health care – 1 bln roubles;

- legal authority – 0.5 bln roubles instead of the 1.3 bln roubles proposed by the faction.

The conditions proposed by the Yabloko faction at the third reading will

involve a distribution of the funds on the “Defence and Military Reform”

item and parliamentary control over the government’s use of additional revenues.

At the time of the review of the draft budget for 2001, Yabloko submitted to the Duma a complete range of proposals (“Yabloko’s proposals to the draft budget – 2001).

 

See also:

Sergei Ivanenko: Yabloko and the Union of Right-Wing Forces to pool their forces in discussions of amendments to the budget-2001 in the State Duma

Yabloko’s leader discusses with Prime Minister revenues in the 2001 federal budget

The budget has the money to start tackling the main issues in the country: military reform, a qualitative improvement in education and judicial reform.

Yabloko faction to take final decision on voting on the draft budget on Friday

Yabloko plans to submit own budget draft to the Finance Minister

Alexei Kudrin notes that the views of the government and Yabloko coincide on many items of the draft budget for 2001

Grigory Yavlinsky: in certain circumstances the Yabloko faction may support the draft budget for 2001 at its first reading

The leadership of Yabloko is pleased that President had paid attention to Grigory Yavlinsky’s budget proposals

Mikhail Zadornov thinks that the rate of inflation stated in the budget-2001 is understated