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Russian lawmakers prepare questions for Putin

24 March 2009 11:30 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Vahab Rzayev â€“APA. Russian political parties represented in State Duma prepared their questions for Prime Minister Valdimir Putin, who will deliver his annual report to the parliament. Each party will ask three questions, APA reports.
The Communist Party will ask questions about the governmentâ€™s measures for prevention of the increasing of gas, electricity and communal service tariffs. The communists also take interest in the anti-tax crisis measures, particularly reasons of the governmentâ€™s intention not to reduce the land taxes within the governmentâ€™s support of the population. The partyâ€™s third question is about the real economic sectorâ€™s credits. The communists will ask Putin about the VTB, Sberbank, Gazprombankâ€™s opportunities to spend 1.5 trillion rubles of loans allocated from the budget for purchasing of their stocks.
The Liberal-Democratic Party is going to ask about the governmentâ€™s plan on the freezing of tariffs of the natural monopolies. The party is also concerning over the enterprises that involve the currency loans for modernization of the production and face with the bankruptcy threat. The liberal-democrats will also ask about the amendments to the trade law, which considers supporting the local producers.
The Fair Russia Partyâ€™s questions are about the draft law on the construction-savings banks and generally about the Prime Ministerâ€™s reaction to the liberal-democratic proposals.
Members of the State Duma from the United Russia Party have not specified their questions yet. They will probably ask about the fulfillment of the laws and development of scientific fields.
The list of questions will be approved on Marh 24 by the State Duma and the Prime Ministerâ€™s report will be heard on April 2.