Russians want to know MP’s income, spending, would ban foreign assets – poll

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(Interfax –  Moscow, April 15, 2013) Only 4 per cent of Russian do not care what incomes State Duma deputies have, while the vast majority (92 per cent) would like to know this and therefore support the use of such measures as mandatory declaration of incomes and spending for the elected representatives of the people.

Some 90 per cent of the 1,600 participants in the poll carried out at the end on March in 130 population centres in 42 regions, territories and republics of Russia, also favoured the ban on foreign bank accounts and securities for State Duma deputies, VTsIOM (Russian Public Opinion Research Centre) pollsters who carried out the study told Interfax on Monday (15 April).

It turned out that, the older the respondents, the more they tend to approve of these measures: thus, declaration (of incomes and spending) is supported by 84 per cent of those aged 18 to 24 and by 93 per cent of the elderly; the ban on foreign assets, by 84 and 93 per cent respectively. The opponents of using these measures were in the minority (4 and 6 per cent respectively). (Passage omitted)

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