Teksler seeks budget relief More aid and flexible loans

Oct 5

Teksler says some regions can consolidate while others have exhausted their options. He welcomes existing support but warns of 2027 deficits and commercial borrowing. He asks for aid beyond the retained hundred-billion-ruble amount, inflation-adjusted equalization grants, monthly treasury overdrafts and year-end loans with broader uses and higher limits, temporarily looser deficit and debt covenants and flexibility or deferrals for some court-imposed spending. Matviyenko thanks him. These are requests, not approvals.

Regional participants seek predictable and larger aid, inflation-adjusted grants, broader treasury loans, easier deficit/debt rules and further write-offs. Matviyenko urges debt monitoring and fair funding of regional responsibilities; Teksler, Martynov, Shumkov, Korolyov, Chibis, Khotsenko and Abramov provide regional experience and proposals. Siluanov describes existing transfers, debt relief and loans, cautions against commercial debt and insists on balanced budgets and recovery programmes, offering specified compromises and resource-dependent support. This connected hearing debate does not adopt the requested blanket relaxation or debt cancellation.