W.E. Rehabilitated

The rules for mentioning conventional units are entrusted to develop the State Duma on the President yesterday at the plenary meeting, did not accept in the third "duty" reading the Law on amendments to some legislative acts of the Russian Federation in terms of establishing requirements for indicating value indicators. " Instead, the deputies returned the bill to the second reading, quickly made amendments and also quickly adopted it in both the second and third readings.

Everything happened so swiftly that no one even managed to really say anything. Only Sergey Ivanov was loudly indignant: according to the deputy from the LDPR, the State Duma simply passed the national Russian currency. There is every reason for the deputy outrage. The new version of the law significantly softens the rules for the use of currency measurements defined in the previous version. In addition, it is assumed that more detailed regulation of the procedure for using value indicators will be determined by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation.

The Vice Speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Katrenko now says that "no one is going to bring the situation to the point of absurdity." And I agree that "if we are talking about international contracts, then the price, for example, will traditionally be indicated in dollars for oil."

Why, in the end, the meaning of such a sensational bill, which was supposed to end the all kinds of W.E.? It turns out that Katrenko claims, all this is done only in order to "so that the authorities once again remember that the ruble is a national currency and legal payment means under the Constitution."

03/21/2007 / Ivan Lavrenov, the material was published in the "newspaper" No. 51 dated 03.22.2007.