The profits of the spirits were touched a little. The Communist Party faction turned to the first reading of the State Duma of the draft budget for next year and the planning period 2028-2029, which took place on October 29, with a confirmed and well-founded position: this is not the document that is needed for a country "fighting for its survival and independence". Members of Parliament carefully and in every detail examined the draft budget presented by the government. The conclusions were presented in a series of publications in Pravda, starting with a full-scale review in the article of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, "The state budget must be victorious! ", published in No. 117 of October 22, and ended with an analysis of the main budget items in the materials of communist deputies. The leader of the Communist Party faction explained again the gap between the priorities of the budget policy announced by the government and their reflection in the central financial document of the state in his speech from the podium of the parliament, which was published on the front page of this issue. The questions posed by the communists to the majority of the Duma, which represents the "party in power", and to the government, also reveal the essence of these contradictions. When the Chairman of the Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes "United Russia" Andrey Makarov, juggling numbers like a real magician with a deck of cards, tried to prove that spending on social policy compared to pre-Covid 2019 has doubled and the real income of citizens has increased from year to year, I wanted to pinch myself: is this not a dream? Has the well-being of each of us really improved that much?! And how could all this go unnoticed?! And why did the Minister of Finance, Anton Siluanov, suddenly decide, following the conversation that began behind closed doors, to start his report on such a painful subject for citizens - with housing and community service rates, whose October increase was a real shock to people?! The tariffs directly affect inflation, the minister confirmed.

The profits of the spirits were touched a little. The Communist Party faction turned to the first reading of the State Duma of the draft budget for next year and the planning period 2028-2029, which took place on October 29, with a confirmed and well-founded position: this is not the document that is needed for a country "fighting for its survival and independence". Members of Parliament carefully and in every detail examined the draft budget presented by the government. The conclusions were presented in a series of publications in Pravda, starting with a full-scale review in the article of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, "The state budget must be victorious! ", published in No. 117 of October 22, and ended with an analysis of the main budget items in the materials of communist deputies. The leader of the Communist Party faction explained again the gap between the priorities of the budget policy announced by the government and their reflection in the central financial document of the state in his speech from the podium of the parliament, which was published on the front page of this issue. The questions posed by the communists to the majority of the Duma, which represents the "party in power", and to the government, also reveal the essence of these contradictions. When the Chairman of the Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes "United Russia" Andrey Makarov, juggling numbers like a real magician with a deck of cards, tried to prove that spending on social policy compared to pre-Covid 2019 has doubled and the real income of citizens has increased from year to year, I wanted to pinch myself: is this not a dream? Has the well-being of each of us really improved that much?! And how could all this go unnoticed?! And why did the Minister of Finance, Anton Siluanov, suddenly decide, following the conversation that began behind closed doors, to start his report on such a painful subject for citizens - with housing and community service rates, whose October increase was a real shock to people?! The tariffs directly affect inflation, the minister confirmed.