"What's wrong with Gazelles and Nivas?" A Ryazan resident asked Putin to cancel a 45 million ruble government procurement order for foreign cars for regional officials.
A resident of Skopin, Ryazan Svetlana Konovalova sent a letter Vladimir Putin with a request to influence regional officials so that they cancel the purchase of cars worth a total of 45 million rublesPublic Skopin.Info askedooze support a fellow countrywoman.
She also asked regional officials to cancel the purchase.
"Dear Pavel Malkov, Government of the Ryazan Region! You know that the Ryazan Region has many problems that have been unresolved for many years. When people ask questions, they're told there aren't enough funds, but the government is willing to pay 45 million rubles to buy cars for officials! Wouldn't it be better to use some of this money to address the region's problems? Officials could support the domestic auto industry and buy cars much more affordably!" — she wrote approximately the same thing as in the letter to Putin.
On the eve стало известноThe regional government plans to purchase a black seven-seat minivan for 11,1 million rubles and eight sedans for 4,3 million each. The vehicle requirements are such that domestically produced brands are unlikely to be suitable. The regional government already purchased four foreign-made cars for a total of 19,2 million rubles this spring.
"Even our president, it seems, uses a domestic car. Have officials decided to be cooler than the president?" "What's wrong with Gazelles, Grants, Vestas, and Nivas?" — commented local residents.
Around the same time Volgograd publics оdrew attentionthat the local deputies regional Dumas They don't want to drive domestic cars, but are planning to buy four foreign cars for 9 million rubles.
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