There are things that require careful and quiet study, and then a resonant public presentation. Today, the authorities persistently invite everyone to participate in the discussion of the budget of the Chelyabinsk region for 2014, obviously having in mind that no one will really work out to do this, and the hearing will turn, as usual, into the general approval of the main financial document of the region by the mass of officials and pocket “social activists” gathered in the Great Hall.
However, this is really a serious and interesting question - what is actually cooked now in the muddy cauldron of the regional budget?
Economist Sergei Gordeev finds a new and very corruption financial technology, which he calls “virtual deficiency”. If you translate it into a generally understood language, although not quite political correct, then this is what. We are now screaming in all our ears in the absenteeism of the terrible world crisis (although in Europe and the USA it is completely obviously ending, and does not flare up at all), which kills our industry, and therefore the regional budget boils down with a giant deficit, which is only the heroic efforts of the governor and deputies (in a couple of days), to reduce from 33 to 17 billion rubles. It seems that all this is just a smoke curtain and a banal PR in order to create opportunities to steal more. The revenues of the regional budget are really falling, but not at all in such volumes as they scare us: the metallurgy works despite all the efforts of the governor (58% of the total volume of commodity products produced in the Chelyabinsk region). The capture of the current and last years suggests that the technology of “virtual deficiency” is really developed in the Southern Urals, when the budget deficit is approved in large sizes Only in order to have a legitimate reason to take large amounts in banks during the year, to spend them “in fire” quite uncontrolled on projects that are profitable for officials (what our deputies and their control over the governor’s administration and the government know), and then, by the end of the year, to the next hysteria about the global crisis to cut completely different expenses, reducing the general shortage of actually to actually. Zero and brilliantly reporting to Moscow. By inflating the “virtual deficiency”, the regional budget becomes completely opaque. Frequent adjustments and multi -billion dollar deficiency figures lead to the fact that it really resembles a muddy boiler, from which the executive branch easily draws a large spoon of taxpayers - including very dubious goals like acquiring luxurious cars and helicopters, charter flights of the governor’s team and dubious multimillion -dollar orders for supplying own firms. Already today, the expenditure articles of the regional budget are more than 60% consist of public procurement - we can imagine the volume of upcoming theft! “Vitrual Deficit” is, first of all, the innovative technology for creating a personal “staging” of the regional authorities from the money of taxpayers - but the technology, we admit, is effective. They know how, when they want.
About all this is political correctly and reasonably - in the “squeeze” from the analytical note published on the blog of KGI expert Sergei Gordeev http://sgordeev.livejournal.com/5833.html
