Who needs virtual money

Deputy Minister of Defense against increasing the monetary maintenance of the military by 2-2.5 times, as provided for by the law recently adopted by the State Duma and approved by the Federation Council. As it became known to the Frances.ru, Lyubov Kudelin, the deputy minister and the head of the Main Military Economic Directorate of the Moscow Region, is trying to slow down, or even freeze the process of equating the military salaries with the salaries of government officials. As you know, this is what establishes the law "On Amendments to Article 12 of the Federal Law" On the Status of Military ", with a large pomp, adopted by both chambers of the Federal Assembly.

Kudelin, according to the source of the "faces" in the military department, incesses the Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov to appeal to the president with a request to impose a veto on the law adopted by the Parliament. The main argument is this: in the budget there is no funds for its implementation. According to the State Duma, this will need 37 billion rubles. The Ministry of Finance calls its figure - 60 billion rubles. Lyubov Kudelin, apparently, does not question the layout of colleagues. Moreover, she herself, when the Ministry of Finance of the Ministry of Finance, was firmly held by the opinion that in the foreseeable future the financial fate of the military could not be significantly changed. In a conversation with me last fall, Lyubov Kondratievna emotionally spoke out against the pumping up of the budget with virtual money, which more than once put the army in a difficult position and fever federal budget as a whole. It seems that today, already using the key position in the Ministry of Defense, Kudelin is determined to “bury” the populist, from its point of view, the law.

Thus, the intrigue spring around the money for the army, which arose after Vladimir Putin promised decisive changes in the financial support of the armed forces, does not weaken, but rather, on the contrary, it is squeezed the same. If you still believe the Ministry of Finance (and he resisted the law from the very beginning, it is enough to turn to the letter of Kudrin Stroyev, in which the Minister of Finance warns that there is no money for a good undertaking), then really six tens of billions of rubles will torpedo both the defense and the federal budget. It does not save, the financiers say, and the scatter of this amount into two budgets - 2001 and 2002. Most importantly, this amount in two or three years will inevitably swell under the influence of inflation. The automatic indexation provided for civilian state employees spread to nearly a million contractors (officers, warrant officers, sergeants, ordinary people) at the time of expenses for the maintenance of the armed forces. And after a year or two, the current political triumph of the president, who settled the hope in the army for the financial revival, will turn into the budget paralysis. First of all - defense.

It is about this, but in more delicate expressions, that Lyubov Kudelin is trying to inform the Kremlin. Although he understands for sure that her activity annoys politicians and the military.

Will Sergey Ivanov listen to his deputy? It is doubtful that he would go to such an unpopular step. Recently, the new minister is trying to please the army, telling her only pleasant news. In addition, as a disciplined official of the presidential administration, he, of course, agrees all ten times with both the advisers of the president and the GDP itself. It is possible that an unspoken, extended, extended time for adjusting the terms prescribed in the law will be adopted. The method is not new. But only the mine, laid down under the budget, will not become less explosive from this. The amounts that are discussed are too large. The military will be too sensitive to any tricks that take away the promised ruble from them.

Is it possible to expect in this situation that Ms. Kudelin, as a professional who does not want to take part in the adventure (which, by the way, will be hanged on it), will voluntarily resign? It is unlikely. Among modern Russian officials, such phenomena are extremely rare. So, outwardly, the Ministry of Defense will continue to demonstrate the unanimous positions of all members of the team. Rather, a strong and healthy military family.