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 Speech
of Grigory Yavlinsky at the mourning meeting on the
Memory Day of the Victims of Political Repressions
Moscow, Lubyanka Square, October
30, 2000
Dear friends,
We are here together. There are much more of us than
they think. Friends, not only we refuse to forget
about the past as it actually was, we can also see
what is happening. We feel that the danger of Stalinism
has not perished
Duma
Passes Budget in 2nd Reading
The Moscow Times,
By Igor Semenenko Staff Writer
Saturday, October 21, 2000
The draft 2001 budget sailed through
the State Duma on a second reading Friday powered
by government concessions giving the regions a larger
share of the tax take.
Grigory
Yavlinsky in the “Here and Now” programme
The ORT channel, October 16, 2000, Interviewer:
Alexander Lyubimov
Yavlinsky: Taxes in this budget are much lower than
in the past. For example, a 13% income tax, which
does not increase as actual earnings increase. This
is very good.
COMMODITIES
& AGRICULTURE: Russia tries to come to terms with
West: New production sharing agreements seen as last
chance to draw foreign investment to oil and gas sector,
says Anna Sherman:
Financial Times, October 4,
2000
Today the European Commission is expected to discuss
proposals for developing a long-term strategic energy
partnership with Russia following exploratory talks
about importing oil and gas.
Last month Mikhail Kasyanov, the Russian prime minister,
visited London and tried to encourage Western oil
and gas companies to take advantage of new production
sharing agreements (PSAs)
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