Head of the Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin called an alternative to regulating prices in Russia. In his opinion, instead of administrative restrictions, subsidies need to purchase certain goods. His words leads RBC.
“When the peak of a negative phenomenon occurs, the price regulation is possible and reasonable,” he said, and added that such a measure should be limited in time. According to Kudrin, its action for 3-4 months can lead to other imbalances.
In addition, the head of the Accounts Chamber spoke about the way to reduce poverty in the country half. Kudrin believes that in this case the address support to those in need of families will help, but these goals will need several hundred billion rubles. “The most important thing is that these are absolutely reasonable and rolling numbers for the state, this is, in fact, several hundred billion rubles, which would reduce the level of poverty by about twice,” he emphasized.