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St. Petersburg. February 3, 2003. "President does not dispose of all available information on draft laws submitted to parliament," stated deputy of the State Duma Sergei Mitrokhin in comments on Vladimir Putin's statement regarding energy sector reform and reform in the
housing and communal sector made during a meeting with Chairman of the State Duma Gennadi Seleznyov on January 29, 2003. This information was provided to the Rosbalt correspondent by YABLOKO's press-service. According to Deputy Head of YABLOKO Mitrokhin, "the President does not appear to be fully aware of the crux of the proposals in the government drafts." Mitrokhin thinks that these documents "don't have anything in common with real reforms" He also noted that , the package of amendments called "housing and communal sector reform" seeks to legitimise the fiscal measures carried out in the past." Consequently, stressed Mitrokhin, it could result in a "severe deterioration in the situation in the sector and provoke a new avalanche of disasters in the communal services sphere." Mitrokhin also thinks that the President has been given purposefully misleading information regarding the legislative initiatives proposed on behalf of the government accountable to the President.
Mitrokhin also reiterated that YABLOKO had developed an alternative concept of housing and communal sector reform. YABLOKO thinks that the government should abolish the fiscal measures, shifting responsibility for the situation in the housing and communal sector to the population, and launch structural reforms aimed at demonopolising the sector, reporting on the real consumption of services and creating a collective consumer system. "Only changes to the reform concept and the launch of structural reforms will enable Russia to avoid an avalanche of disasters in the communal services sector, and provide in future a modern and dynamic communal services sector," stated Mitrokhin.
See also:
Housing and Communal Reform
Energy Sector Reform
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