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Article: RUSSIA: PRIME MINISTER A STEP BEHIND FINANCE MINISTRY?
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- October 18, 2001
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On a trip to Yaroslavl to dedicate an ice hockey arena on 12 October, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov told reporters that it would be inexpedient at present to change the principle of interbudgetary relations, in which 60 percent of budget revenues flow to the federal center. "We are trying to establish the law dividing revenues 50-50, but now we need a not large 'reserve of money' so the center can fulfill a series of important responsibilities -- international responsibilities such as repaying the state debt and internal ones such as reforming the army and judicial system," he said. Kasyanov acknowledged that there are 20 regions in Russia that have insufficient ...