S.Stepashin: Tatarstan has most expedient system of state and financial control

On June 5 the Tatarstan parliament speaker Farid Moukhametshin and Russian Audit Chamber chairman Sergei Stepashin met at the premises of the Tatarstan’s State Council. Attendees at the meeting were the Tatar first deputy prime minister Ravil Muratov and other officials.

Farid Mouhkametshin spoke of the situation in the republic in relation to the ongoing economic crisis. “Our position is stable. Unemployment is 3.2 percent – these are the ones who are registered. It is quite a lot but we see no tragedy,” noted the parliament’s leader. He said the local economy would by the year’s end begin to recover.

The meeting’s participants discussed the law on Tatarstan’s audit chamber. Farid Moukhametshin called it “optimal”. Sergei Stepashin agreed with him. “In my view, Tatarstan has built a most expedient system of state and financial control,” he remarked. “The Tatarstan’s Audit Chamber is despite its young age one of the most effective in both the professional sense and in the sense of providing working conditions.” Tatarstan’s experience, Mr Stepashin is convinced, could be extensively used at the federal level.

The Russian audit chamber’s head proposed devising a joint plan for inspecting the upcoming Universiade 2013's facilities in Kazan. The federal and local audit authorities would have to cooperate on the plan. “We need to follow the course of events together and to have these funds disbursed effectively,” enhanced Mr Stepashin.