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He stated that “a significant increase in expenditures is envisaged” in 2005 to strengthen defense capabilities and the entire security component. “It will amount to approximately 40% of the current year,” Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the leadership of the security and financial departments. “For 2005, the defense order assumes an increase of 40%, which in monetary terms is about 70 billion rubles,” Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin replied to the head of state.
He announced that a new target program “Antiterror” would be launched in 2005. Vladimir Putin announced this at a meeting with the leadership of security and financial departments. It is planned to allocate funds in the amount of 2.3 billion rubles for the implementation of this program.
Held a working meeting with Plenipotentiary Representative in the Siberian District Leonid Drachevsky. The plenipotentiary representative reported to Vladimir Putin that the prospects for the harvest in the Siberian district “regardless of the weather are already good.” According to Leonid Drachevsky, “the grain harvest will be at least 15 centners per hectare.” Noting that the Republic of Khakassia has problems, the plenipotentiary said that in this republic borders and districts are being determined, and without zoning it is impossible to create local administrations. In this regard, the plenipotentiary also noted that one of the serious problems in the Siberian District is personnel - competent managers and local organizers are needed.
Government
It will consider the draft law on the federal budget for 2005 at a meeting on August 23 and will send it to the State Duma for consideration on August 26, said Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov. He noted that “work on the budget for 2005 is in full swing, the Ministry of Finance is completing the approval of the final figures of the draft budget.” The deadline for introducing the budget bill for 2005 was postponed from August 12 to August 19 due to the fact that the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade only on August 9 submitted to the Ministry of Finance the latest version of the updated economic forecast for the next year, in which it revised forecasts for economic growth and prices for oil for 2005.
Departments
The Ministry of Taxes and Duties (MNT) provided the federal budget with 843.65 billion rubles in January-July of this year. excluding the unified social tax (UST) , which is 11.2% more than in the same period last year. As noted in the ministry's statement, most of the tax revenues in January-July were provided by VAT receipts (almost 48.9%), payments for the use of natural resources (27.19%), and corporate income tax (13.9%) . In addition, during this period, 250.09 billion rubles were received. unified social tax credited to the federal budget, which is 23.6% more than for the same period in 2003.
The Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (Rosfinmonitoring) is currently conducting about a thousand financial investigations of suspicious transactions in various areas of the Russian economy , said the head of the service, Viktor Zubkov. According to him, these investigations are being conducted in cooperation with financial intelligence agencies of 50 countries. In addition, Viktor Zubkov said that currently the federal service database contains over 2.5 million reports of suspicious financial transactions. At the same time, the database is updated daily by 8-10 thousand messages, of which about 90% come from credit institutions.
Army
The Ministry of Defense must submit regulations on the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation by September 1. This is stated in the order of the President of Russia, which concerns ensuring Russia's fulfillment of international obligations in the field of military-technical cooperation (MTC) with foreign states. The Ministry was also ordered to form a working group to prepare a draft presidential decree on military-technical cooperation and submit an agreed draft decree by November 1. The work of the group will be supervised by the director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation. Based on materials from news agencies and our own information
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