Senators supported the sequestration of the budget

The Federation Council approved as a result of a short discussion at an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday amendments to the federal budget for 2009. The law was supported by 101 senator, 1 voted against, reports the correspondent "Polit.ru" Lev Fainberg.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Budget Evgeny Bushmin introduced the bill. He said that the law is changing a lot in the 2009 budget. The changes are aimed at achieving two main goals: providing additional support for the banking sector and redistribution of budget funds to provide additional support for individual sectors of the economy, financial support for public normative obligations and social security of individual citizens.

Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin thanked the senators for the fact that, at the request of the government, they gathered for an extraordinary meeting, as a result of two weeks won during the discussion of the law, will allow us to fully use the redistributed funds. The Ministry of Finance conducted a complete inventory of expenses for this year and found out what expenses the Ministry of Finance could not be carried out by the power of the tenders, unfulfilled work, reducing the contingent of the recipients of funds, as it was in the housing and communal services, and direct them to support the economy and social sphere so that they work. Having reported that he should leave for the opening of the International Conference along with the Prime Minister, Kudrin suggested answering senators' questions.

Senator Vyacheslav Novikov pointed out two mistakes, as he believes, the government expanded the costs, but did not switch to the innovative development path. Novikov recalled that the senators have already considered the draft budgettea-2010, "there is no trace of innovative development." Kudrin recalled the allocation of the funds to be equipped with new nuclear power plant technologies, also Migu, this is of course repaying debts, but the company is competitive, and subsidies of the United Aircraft Corporation to create a joint vehicle with India.