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At a meeting with members of the government, he reminded the Minister of Health and Social Development Mikhail Zurabov of his instructions to improve the pension system for military widows. The minister, in turn, promised that in a week the government will complete the development of a law according to which all widows of military personnel will receive two pensions, including for the loss of a breadwinner. “A draft law has been developed providing for the receipt of two state pensions by widows of military personnel who have not remarried,” Mr. Zurabov reported. According to him, “within a week the work will be completed, the document will go to the government, and then to the State Duma.” The head of state demanded to know exactly when the draft law would be submitted to parliament. “To be realistic, after the holidays,” answered Mikhail Zurabov.
Departments
The Russian Ministry of Finance and the government commission to improve the effectiveness of budget expenditures are collecting applications from federal executive authorities until May 1 to participate in an experiment to introduce results-oriented budget planning methods . The content of the experiment is the distribution of funds among its participants on a competitive basis, depending on the degree to which they use results-oriented budget planning methods, the quality of financial management, as well as the development and implementation of measures to improve the quality of budget management, the document says.
Parties
According to the Central Election Commission of Russia, the United Russia party had financial revenues in 2005 that were almost one and a half times greater than the other 35 Russian parties combined. In total, 1 billion 770 million rubles were received into the accounts of 36 registered Russian political parties in 2005. The United Russia party's revenues amount to about 1 billion 100 million rubles. According to news agencies and own information
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