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The budget is open all gone to the front?

Alexander Kalyagin commented on the idea of ​​the Treasury:
The Ministry of Finance considers necessary to reduce spending on items such as education, health and sports. Proposed to increase the defense budget in 2014 to 2.7 trillion rubles. Of culture does not say a word. You can comment on that?

Alexander Kalyagin: How can there be a comment, I want to shout: "Help!". I read the speech of Mr. Siluanova at a cabinet meeting on July 6. "The main costs - national defense, national security and social policy", - said the Minister. Wonderful. Then he adds: "For a variety of topics such as education, health, physical culture and sports, a reduction of budget expenditures." Of culture - not a word, but it is clear that it is in this range rogue. What explains this a budget, our chief financial officer? But what, "If we see that the additional expenditure commitments of funds not to be missed, there is a problem of prioritization of expenditure, there is need to identify priorities, and, therefore, must give up other, less important tasks." Culture, education, health, physical culture, sport, according to the Treasury, less important than the problem with the defense and security.
Has anyone figured out what the consequences might be if the "less significant problem" will not solved? How, then, refer to the speech the president, who said: "We have a residual lot of things going - and the cultural institutions, and sports. It does not give us the opportunity to deal effectively with any drug, no drunkenness, no crime among young people. This is important things they can not plan on leftovers "? But financial experts believe that it is possible. And optimize. But saving today on the financing of the theater, museum, library, tomorrow we'll spend three times as much on building new prisons. And it is "tomorrow" there will come, and already "tomorrow" to change the policy will be too late.
Universal folly - to think that we can improve the budget by reducing expenditures on culture and art. And then there is nothing - no culture, no budget, no country. These are all truisms, I have already expressed, but must be repeated again and again. Literally, every year for many years with the Ministry of Culture, with the Committee on Culture DG, with the Public Chamber, we are fighting for, not to cut spending on culture in the federal budget.
Culture disappears and with it disappears the whole cultural stratum of society.

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