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По сообщениям информагентств и собственной информации
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Officially
Signed the federal constitutional law “On the formation of a new subject of the Russian Federation within the Russian Federation as a result of the unification of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Taimyr (Dolgano-Nenets) Autonomous Okrug and the Evenki Autonomous Okrug.” The merger of the subjects was approved by the State Duma on September 22, 2005, and by the Federation Council on October 5.
Government
Expressed gratitude to Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. The corresponding order was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov. Gratitude is declared “for services in the field of financial and economic activities,” the prime minister’s order states.
Departments
Reducing taxes in the face of rising costs to combat terrorism is inappropriate. This was stated by Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, commenting on the proposals of the Prime Minister and the government apparatus to reduce the VAT rate from 18 to 13% since 2007. According to Mr. Kudrin, “the country is now in a state of war with international terrorism, which requires additional expenses.” At the same time, he emphasized that “countries that are in such a situation rarely decide on significant deep tax cuts.”
State Duma
Adopted in the second reading a bill defining the deadlines for approving maximum tariff levels for electricity and heat. The bill defines the obligation of the Russian government to set maximum levels of electricity tariffs before submitting a draft federal budget for the next financial year to the State Duma.
Accepted an appeal to the Chairman of the Russian Government, Mikhail Fradkov, in connection with the failure of federal authorities to implement measures to implement the provisions of the Housing and Urban Planning Codes of Russia and other laws aimed at creating an affordable housing market.
Parties
The leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov made it clear that he might nominate his candidacy in the 2008 presidential elections. “We have already put 11 different programs on the government’s table... and nothing has been made public or accepted... We have every reason to nominate our own presidential candidate, and the leader of the largest party, which has such experience as ours, simply must be I’m ready for this,” Gennady Zyuganov said at a meeting with voters in the Vladimir region.