Government Posts Revised Anti-Crisis Plan on Web Site
The regulation published its revised anti-crisis plan on the web site of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday, although it did not appear to be significantly altered from the initial version.
The 65-page document is the second draft of the government's anti-crisis measures, which takes into account the opinions of "experts, citizens, party heads and NGOs," according to the document's introduction.
The original version was published March 19 on the web site of pro-Kremlin party United Russia. Putin, who presented the plan to the State Duma on Monday, heads the party.
But the new version did not provide any interpretation of the revisions. The table of figures in the appendix, which outlines exact amounts of support for specific programs, is identical to the earlier version.
Communist Party deputy head Ivan Melnikov criticized the program and said the regulation had been insincere in its offer to discuss and debate the plan.
"In the best-case scenario, Vladimir Putin would respond to some of the suggestions in [the Communist Party's] crisis program … but the opposite happened," he said in a statement on his party's web site.
A Just Russia, the center-left, pro-Kremlin party, also questioned the priorities in the anti-crisis document.
"The mind draws a surrealist nightmare — the skyscrapers of rescued banks atop economic ruin that buries the poorest part of the people," said Nikolai Levichev, head of the party's Duma faction, Interfax reported.
The crisis measures offer 6.5 trillion rubles ($196 billion) in support for the country's financial industry, which Levichev said was 14 times more than the spending on social support.
Critics also said the program did not spell out who would be answerable for results or how the program would be overseen.
The 65-page document is the second draft of the government's anti-crisis measures, which takes into account the opinions of "experts, citizens, party heads and NGOs," according to the document's introduction.
The original version was published March 19 on the web site of pro-Kremlin party United Russia. Putin, who presented the plan to the State Duma on Monday, heads the party.
But the new version did not provide any interpretation of the revisions. The table of figures in the appendix, which outlines exact amounts of support for specific programs, is identical to the earlier version.
Communist Party deputy head Ivan Melnikov criticized the program and said the regulation had been insincere in its offer to discuss and debate the plan.
"In the best-case scenario, Vladimir Putin would respond to some of the suggestions in [the Communist Party's] crisis program … but the opposite happened," he said in a statement on his party's web site.
A Just Russia, the center-left, pro-Kremlin party, also questioned the priorities in the anti-crisis document.
"The mind draws a surrealist nightmare — the skyscrapers of rescued banks atop economic ruin that buries the poorest part of the people," said Nikolai Levichev, head of the party's Duma faction, Interfax reported.
The crisis measures offer 6.5 trillion rubles ($196 billion) in support for the country's financial industry, which Levichev said was 14 times more than the spending on social support.
Critics also said the program did not spell out who would be answerable for results or how the program would be overseen.
