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Vedomosti, April 28, 2004

YABLOKO forms faction in the federal government

By Andrey Panov, Boris Grozovskiy, Anfisa Voronina and Anna Scherbakova

The liberal party's members take numerous posts in the Federal Antimonopoly Service

For the first time in Russian history the core staff of a federal body is being recruited from the members of one party. Half of the directorates in the newly formed Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) are now headed by members of the YABLOKO party.

Shortly after his appointment as chief of FAS, one of YABLOKO's leaders Igor Artemyev told the press he has retained his party membership and the President Vladimir Putin, who promised to employ the members of the liberal parties that had failed to get to the State Duma, did not object. "Antitrust legislation was one of the priority issues in YABLOKO's work in the [previous] State Duma, we had many brilliant experts, and I intend to continue cooperating with them," Artemyev said at the time

Apparently the politician has kept his word. A source at FAS told Vedomosti that members of YABLOKO have been appointed heads of seven of the service's fourteen directorates, as well as the staff management department and the press service. Most of them are from the party's St. Petersburg branch.

FAS has been given the functions of controlling compliance with legislation on competition in the goods' and financial services' markets, natural monopolies and advertising.

YABLOKO pins high hopes on Artemyev and his team. "If they succeed, we'll be able to defeat the main myth about our party - that it speaks, but doesn't do anything," said the head of the YABLOKO's St. Petersburg branch Maxim Reznik.

 

Vedomosti, April 28, 2004

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