| Anchor: The leader of YABLOKO, Grigory
Yavlinsky, explained today why his faction in the State Duma had voted
against the draft budget proposed by the government. According to Yavlinsky,
the Cabinet has clearly understate budget revenue by hundreds of billions
of roubles.
Yavlinsky: Professionally the budget is fine: as a
financial document it is quite clear and reliable. However, it fails to
formulate a single task that it could resolve in the coming year. We are
conducting are own calculations on the financial resources available to
the government next year. According to our estimates it transpires that
the government will have 215 billion roubles more than it revealed for
discussion in the Duma. Can you imagine what this means? This represents
about 10% of the budget. This is no laughing matter, as 215 billion roubles
is close to the amount required to enable us to start resolving the problem
of poverty in the country next year.
See also:
Budget
2004
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