Russia Reacts to Yeltsin's 1998 Budget Call 🇷🇺

(17 Feb 1998) T/I: 10:27:31


Russian President Boris Yeltsin's speech demanding the adoption of a realistic budget for 1998 did not impress members of the Duma on Tuesday (17/02).
Yeltsin warned the government that it would be sacked if it failed to meet the economic targets.

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MOSCOW, RUSSIA 17/02:
WS exterior of Kremlin;
MS lawmakers walking down stairs;
Nationalist Deputy Vladimir Zhirinovsky, SOT in Russian, saying, "This is an address where the problems are counted. We know all about the problems - as usual, government officials are guilty. It's necessary to take more serious steps for example, in foreign policy. Take Iraq, we should start trading with it directly. We take part in world trade, but we are not even getting a Kopeck out of it.";
SOT Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov, in Russian, "This is the most irresponsible address I have ever heard. I remember listening to party speeches and now it seems to me that our leader does not know what is going on. The most surprising thing is the text of the address is very, very poor. Therefore I have no further comment, because there is nothing further to comment on.";
CA media;
SOT First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais, in Russian, "In this address, there is reference to the huge amount of work that needs to be done, and that work will start today.";

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