Who pay the producers for cost containment?

Agricultural sector Proizvodstvo15-11-2007 Who pay the producers for cost containment? Regional authorities officially allowed to enter into "voluntary" agreements with manufacturers and vendors "to reduce and maintain prices of certain types of socially important foodstuffs of prime necessity." The decree, published on the website of the Russian government, stipulated deadline of such "arrangements". It is bounded on Jan. 31, 2008. Federal Antimonopoly Service of the State charged with developing recommendations on the "essential terms of the agreements." Control "treaty" retail and wholesale prices for socially important food products will be the Federal Service of State Statistics. In his recent interview with Business Portal Bigness.ru experts have argued against such a "radical" measures. "Such an action officers is a populist nature," said Professor of the Higher School of Economics Ivan Rodionov. Price fixing he called "a purely socialist mode, which operates in times of emergency, war, etc., when entering into force the laws of war and for non-orders can be shot."