The agenda: monthly payments to the Kursk Region residents who lost their housing, social gas supply projects and developing the Far Eastern infrastructure
Government meeting
Government meeting
Government meeting
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks:
Good afternoon, colleagues,
On Tuesday, the President chaired a meeting with Government members and prioritised support for the Kursk Region’s residents.
He instructed the concerned officials to pay 65,000 roubles monthly to all those who have completely lost their essential property, in addition to benefits already being received by them.
We will discuss the relevant issue, part of today’s agenda. We will allocate about 40 billion roubles for effecting these payments, and this will provide financial assistance to over 100,000 people. As the President has noted, this will allow people to start renovating their housing.
I would like to ask the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection to monitor efforts for assisting people, so that they would receive their benefits on time.
The President also instructed us to draft a programme for rebuilding affected districts, including the reconstruction of social facilities, roads and other infrastructure. Mr Khusnullin (addressing Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin), it is necessary to define the programme’s parameters as soon as possible. I ask you to personally oversee this issue.
Next point – a decision affecting millions of our citizens, specifically, social gas supply projects. We are implementing this programme as per the President’s instruction, and it allows people to have free gas pipeline offshoots extended towards their respective land plots in cities, villages, towns and horticulture cooperatives that already have such pipelines.
Outpatient clinics and hospitals, kindergartens and schools can be connected to pipelines on the same terms. Over 1.4 million gas supply contracts have been signed since 2021.
Additional privileges are stipulated for large families, participants in the special military operation and their families, war veterans and people with low incomes. The state reimburses them for part of expenses to purchase and install essential equipment and to extend pipeline offshoots towards their housing. This totals at least 100,000 roubles. We allocated almost 2 billion roubles’ worth of federal funding for these purposes. We aim to continue supporting these categories of citizens, and we will extend the duration of subsidies allocation regulations throughout 2025, and will set aside an additional 1 billion roubles.
Thanks to state funding, more households will be provided with heating and hot water this year.
The next issue concerns the Far East, a macro-region of strategic importance to the entire country. The Government is implementing a wide range of comprehensive measures to make enterprises there more attractive to investors, to enable them to increase production capacity and the number of jobs, and to ensure that people live in comfortable conditions.
On the President’s initiative, we are using one of the most effective mechanisms – a single subsidy. It implies annual funding from the federal budget, which the regions allocate for creating the infrastructure necessary for comfortable life and the activity of organisations. Meanwhile, a number of major projects are being implemented based on concession agreements, the resources for which are envisaged over the three-year budget period. These include construction of three stages of the united embankment in Khabarovsk, a bridge crossing over the Bira River, an overpass near the village of Ptichnik and reconstruction of a motorway section in the Jewish Autonomous Region, upgrading outdoor lighting facilities in Chita, Trans-Baikal Territory, and in the city of Svobodny, Amur Region, setting up a park in Vladivostok and an innovative science and technology centre on Russky Island, as well as the development of Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island.
Based on the Government’s decision, the five Far Eastern regions will have funding commitments of almost 32 billion roubles for 12 years, starting from 2027. We will take them into account when drawing up the federal budget for the relevant periods.
This measure of government support guarantees co-financing for investors who participate in the concession agreement and allows us to carry out the planned activities by stages.
I ask the Ministry for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic to strictly ensure that all these resources are delivered to the regions in a timely manner, and violation of deadlines and obligations are avoided.
