Effective Measures

There are two dozen amendments proposed to the USFSS draft budget in the second reading. Some of them required additional discussion. Head of the Committee on Social Policy, Public Health, Family and Childhood Sergei Cheban presented corrections associated with the redistribution of funds collected under the UST to purchase medical equipment. The deputy supposes that some of the money would be directed rehabilitation after hospital treatment, as well as for the purchase of chemicals for laboratory research. The government is opposed to such a transfer of funds. The views of the Committee on Economy were divided. The solution – is up to deputies. In general, the draft resolution on the adoption of the budget of the Unified State Social Insurance Fund recommended support.

As regards the draft national budget: the relevant committee recommended to return to the second reading mode in order to change the basic settings. This necessity has ripened in connection with newly discovered evidence. The Supreme Council received a letter from the head of "Sheriff", which give lawmakers aware of the fact that this company offers the government an interest-free loan up to October 2016 in the amount of 26 million 550 thousand US dollars in the PMR rubles at the official rate. These funds have a purpose: they are intended to cover the salary arrears to workers of budgetary sphere. While the government has not announced its decision, but the legislators, for its part, must create the conditions for inclusion of these funds in the budget. Executive Committee will recommend to the plenary to register rate in the law-in-draft, according to which the government will have the right to use this loan.

Speaking about the situation in the currency market and government measures to stabilize it, the head of the parliamentary committee noted that the Supreme Council remains opposed to devaluation and insists on keeping the course in the prescribed main directions of the monetary policy of the corridor 11 rubles - 11 rubles 30 kopecks.