| July 2006 |
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"I find it necessary to amend the Tax Code to cancel taxation of state benefits for the birth of a second child in Russian families," the president said at a meeting with members of the Kremlin-friendly United Russia party faction in his country residence outside Moscow.
Under a 1994 "zero option" agreement with ex-Soviet republics, Russia inherited all the assets and liabilities of the former Soviet Union. Russia is about to repay early the outstanding debt worth $22.3 billion that the Soviet Union had obtained in the 1980s to tackle social problems, to the Paris Club of creditor nations by August 21. 
In an interview with Russia's 24-hour news channel Vesti, Viktor Khristenko said that Russia had signed the Charter and was using it in practice but had declined to ratify the document, demanding that a Transit Protocol be signed first. 



