TATARSTAN SUSPENDS TAX PAYMENTS TO MOSCOW

. Tatarstan’scabinet of ministers has suspended the republic’s tax paymentsinto the Russian Federation’s budget until the Russian defenseministry pays its debts to suppliers in Tatarstan, Russian radioreported July 11. The republic’s Prime Minister Farid Mukhamedshinsaid that the ministry owes 30 billion rubles alone for salariesto Tatarstan defense workers for goods delivered in the past 12months and that talks with Russia’s First Deputy Prime MinisterOleg Soskovets and finance minister Vladimir Panskov had led nowhere.

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