KtovKurse — Communist leader dispels new Russian budget as “oligarch orientated”

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Communist Party leader, Gennady Zyuganov, called the draft federal budget for 2018-2020 "a budget of the oligarchy", which will increase stagnation and poverty.... According to Zyuganov, the current budget policy "creeps of the old Gaidar-Chubais [liberal] reforms [under Yeltsin that plunged ordinary Russians into poverty]. It does not smell of modernization, nor a breakthrough for the future. "... Zyuganov's Communist Party enjoys the second most popular rating in the Russian political sphere, after United Russia (Vladimir Putin.) Fort RussCommunist leader dispels new Russian budget as "oligarch orientated" KtovKurse - translated by Inessa Sinchougova

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