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2004

May 26
2004

New restrictions on revenue powers and expenditure obligations will be introduced between levels of the budget system, President Vladimir Putin announced at the Address to the Federal Assembly.

Federation subjects and municipalities should have their executive functions and the public services that they are responsible for precisely determined, and also the sources of their financing.

Responsibility of levels of power in the sphere of social support for the population should be clearly established and restricted: in providing accessible housing, and in issues of education and health. All Federation subjects should actively participate in developing normative and legal documents, and a system of measures for the practical realization of a package of social programmes – taking into account the restriction of powers between levels of state power.

As a result, a renewed system of inter-budgetary relations should arise, and independence and responsibility should increase of both regions and municipalities.

| Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

February 20
2004

President Vladimir Putin introduced a draft federal constitutional law, “On the creation of a new federal subject in the Russian Federation following the unification of Perm Oblast and the Komi-Permyatsky Autonomous District”, to the State Duma for urgent examination.

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