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The Yabloko faction of the State Duma welcomes the reduction
in financing for so-called “lobbyist items” in the draft budget
for 2002, declared the First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction
Sergei Ivanenko on Monday August 27, 2001.
He also said that one of the positive aspects of the draft budget
concern the reduction in financing for “lobbyist items”, in particular
agriculture, industry and investment programmes.
Ivanenko also explained that these items implied, as a rule,
the financing of investment projects; and, according to the Yabloko
faction, such expenditures are very difficult to control. Ivanenko
also thinks that it would be better to increase expenditures on
wages to budget workers, as well as on the servicing of Russia’s
foreign debt.
Ivanenko also noted that the Yabloko faction supported in general
an increase in the financing of socially-oriented items of the
budget, namely, the 60% increase in wages to budget workers and
expenditures on education.
Ivanenko also said that the creation of a stabilisation fund
represents another positive aspect of the draft budget for next
year. He also added that about 50% out of the total 126 bln roubles
of the budget surplus would be allotted to this fund, which will
service Russia’s foreign debt.
At the same time Ivanenko also stressed that the mechanism for
using and replenishing of this fund “requires further development”.
According to Yabloko, the control over expenditures and replenishment
of this fund should be clearly stated in the draft budget for
2002.
See also:
Budget
for 2002
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