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Moscow. April 5, 2002. Russia's economic growth will amount
to 2% this year, stated the leader of the YABLOKO party Grigory
Yavlinsky at a press conference today. Yavlinsky thinks that inflation
will be higher this year than last year, however, owing to the
considerable hard currency reserves of the Central Bank (USD 36
bln) the rouble will not depreciate significantly against the
dollar. Yavlinsky is in general satisfied with the results of
the economic reforms of the past two years in Russia. "We
have almost reached the income level before the 1998 crisis,"
he noted. However, Yavlinsky noted that the main problem for Russia's
economy is the absence of a clear economic strategy. "Today
Russia's economy obeys both market laws and the laws of the planned
economy and "other concepts", stressed Yavlinsky.
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