The State Duma will give money for anti-crisis measures

The State Duma in the future, in 2009, will give a tenth of its budget on measures to overcome the influence of Russia in the global economic crisis. Told Itar-Tass House Speaker Boris Gryzlov. "I took the initiative to cut costs next year by 10 percent, and released funds to send the anti-crisis measures. This initiative was supported and are currently preparing proposals to reduce overall government spending," - he said. According to preliminary calculations, this amount could be more than half a billion rubles. Cost estimates for the State Duma for the next fiscal year approved by the Chamber in January and February. In 2008, the maintenance of the deputies and his staff from the state treasury had allocated about 5.35 billion rubles. The planning period in 2009 before the crisis in the federal budget was planned increase in spending by about inflation. The State Duma also refused a formal banquet on the occasion of New Year, reported in the apparatus of the lower chamber of parliament. "In order to save the legislators decided to abandon New Year's feast," - reported there.