Pre-poverty budget: Nina Ostanina exposed the mechanisms for reducing social payments and child allowances. The interview was conducted by Ilya Gamov, press service of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma. In the State Duma, during the first reading, a struggle unfolded over the draft budget of the Pension and Social Insurance for 2027-2029. The position of the left-wing opposition, which strongly opposed the hidden cuts in demographic programs and pension promises, was presented by the Chair of the State Duma Committee on the Protection of Family, Fatherhood, Motherhood, and Childhood, Communist Party faction deputy Nina Ostanina. The Communists exposed the austerity mechanisms of the government's financial and economic bloc against ordinary citizens and demanded a radical revision of approaches to social policy. - Nina Alexandrovna, the State Duma is considering a bill on the Social Fund budget. You noted that 20% of its expenditures depend on transfers from the federal budget, which itself is burdened with a deficit of 5.4 trillion rubles. How does this economic dependency affect ordinary citizens? "This explains why, although officials officially promise to fulfill obligations, their actual scope remains insufficiently high. The fund currently does not have an independent instrument to influence the country's social policy - it is itself, unfortunately, just a regular executor of government guidelines. As part of our work, we have a lot of constructive interaction with the Chairman of the Social Fund, Sergei. He is always ready for dialogue, our proposals are seriously considered, but ultimately, we still hit a hard ceiling outlined by the current government framework. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation believes that the time has come to give the fund more powers - to give it certain elements of rule-making activities, to enable it to independently make operational decisions and develop rules. This is lacking, given the huge range of issues that the fund covers."

Pre-poverty budget: Nina Ostanina exposed the mechanisms for reducing social payments and child allowances. The interview was conducted by Ilya Gamov, press service of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma. In the State Duma, during the first reading, a struggle unfolded over the draft budget of the Pension and Social Insurance for 2027-2029. The position of the left-wing opposition, which strongly opposed the hidden cuts in demographic programs and pension promises, was presented by the Chair of the State Duma Committee on the Protection of Family, Fatherhood, Motherhood, and Childhood, Communist Party faction deputy Nina Ostanina. The Communists exposed the austerity mechanisms of the government's financial and economic bloc against ordinary citizens and demanded a radical revision of approaches to social policy. - Nina Alexandrovna, the State Duma is considering a bill on the Social Fund budget. You noted that 20% of its expenditures depend on transfers from the federal budget, which itself is burdened with a deficit of 5.4 trillion rubles. How does this economic dependency affect ordinary citizens? "This explains why, although officials officially promise to fulfill obligations, their actual scope remains insufficiently high. The fund currently does not have an independent instrument to influence the country's social policy - it is itself, unfortunately, just a regular executor of government guidelines. As part of our work, we have a lot of constructive interaction with the Chairman of the Social Fund, Sergei. He is always ready for dialogue, our proposals are seriously considered, but ultimately, we still hit a hard ceiling outlined by the current government framework. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation believes that the time has come to give the fund more powers - to give it certain elements of rule-making activities, to enable it to independently make operational decisions and develop rules. This is lacking, given the huge range of issues that the fund covers."