----- Original Message ----- From: SolidNet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 9:46 PM Subject: CP Russian Federation, PRAVDA OF FEBRUARY 27, 2001. No23. SolidNet The purpose of the Solid Net ( Solidarity Network ) is to inform on the activities as well as the ideological and political views of different Communist and Workers’ Parties on National and International issues. All articles in the SolidNet are the responsibility of the authors and in no way commit this Web Site. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.solidnet.org =================================================================== CP Russian Federation, PRAVDA OF FEBRUARY 27, 2001. No23. --------------------------------------------------------- From: Communist Party of Russian Federation http://www.kprf.ru , mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================================== PRAVDA OF FEBRUARY 27, 2001. No23. The newspaper publishes the declaration of the CPRF Central committee presidium which criticizes the governmental policies in regard to the budget. All masks have been thrown off, the declaration runs. It is now clear that under the pretext of external debt deliberations the government of Messrs. Kasyanov, Kudrin and Gref tries to force through the parliament a decision allowing the final sale of all state property. A large-scale and purposeful annihilation of the scientific and industrial potential of the country is in progress. During the last year and a half 13 thousand enterprises were liquidated. Production of crude oil is growing while peasants have no fuel for any agricultural work. They insist on adoption by the Duma of new labour laws that would deprive the labourer of all his rights and put him into the position of a serf. They also want new agricultural laws adopted which would hand the land over to home and overseas tycoons and turn the peasant into their hired work force. The Communist party believes that this government staying in power is ruinous for the country. The faction of the party started the procedure of no-confidence vote in the Duma. A whole page of the newspaper is devoted to readers’ letters. One of the readers, Ivan Shalygin, writes that the official media are persistently trying to convince the public that the GDP growth rate is increasing. In 2000 it allegedly was 7 percent. But they don’t say a word about the fact that the level of industrial production fell in the Russian Federation in the last ten years by not less than a half. Could a 7 percent growth, if it really took place, be considered a success? Basic industrial funds are meanwhile rapidly passing out through wear and tear. Prospects of any industrial growth in the future are very questionable. Another reader, Pavel Tyrinov from Nijhny Novgorod region, says that under Soviet power not a single thief visited his household, even apples in his orchard were all intact. But with the advent of Yeltsyn’s "freedom" he was robbed seven times already and the thieves had not been found. In former times there were 36 militiamen in the district and there was perfect order. Now there are 94 of them and there’s neither law nor order. *End*