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• Zyuganov calls for state monopoly on alcohol, tobacco  

Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov called for nationalising Russia’s mineral and resource sector and key industries by introducing a progressive tax on high incomes.

He also suggested that the government should regain all control over alcohol and tobacco production in the country.

Zyuganov believes this will help “concentrate necessary resources in order to support such leaders in overcoming the crisis as construction, agriculture, automobile industry, light and textile industries, small and medium-size business”.

As supporting measures, he suggested introducing moratorium on the growth of tariffs for the services of so-called natural monopolies, which, in his opinion, has “become a way of turning people’s pockets out and destroying industry

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