here and now №1 13.09.2000 (2000)

Presidential Advisor on Economic Issues Andrei Illarionov speaks about the draft budget of the Russian Federation for 2001, about the upcoming hearings in the State Duma on the draft budget, about its qualitative and quantitative parameters, about new features of the draft budget, about the high-quality preparation of the draft, about the deficit-free budget for the first time in the last ten years, about the government's actions on the upcoming reduction of external and internal debt, about the growth of real and nominal incomes of the population, about the growth of real incomes of the population by eight percent, about the distribution of income between the Center and the regions, about the need for equal distribution of income, about the restoration of the effect of federal laws on the territory of the country in each region, about the equalization of living conditions of the population throughout the country, about the increase in military spending and the strengthening of defense capability, about the beginning of military reform and the amount of funds needed for this, about the influence of fluctuations in oil prices on budget planning.