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People should pay for actual services, not made-up utility bills -- Putin

n his opinion, there are objective reasons for a difference in tariffs for housing and utilities services in different regions

CHEREPOVETS, September 5 (Itar-Tass) —— Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called for solving problems in the housing and utilities sector consistently.

In his opinion, there are objective reasons for a difference in tariffs for housing and utilities services in different regions. “But people should pay for the quality services they actually use, not made-up bills that hide ineffective management, monopolistic position, unwillingness to invest in infrastructure development and often banal theft,” Putin said at an inter-regional conference of the ruling United Russia party in Cherepovets on Monday, September 5.