Agenda: comprehensive restoration and development programme for the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions, action plan for the road network development, expansion of the programme of subsidised flights in the Far East.
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks
Marat Khusnullin’s report on the action plan for the road network development
Vitaly Saveliev’s report on expanding the programme of subsidised flights in the Far East
Excerpts from the transcript:
Mikhail Mishustin: Good morning, colleagues.
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Denis Manturov at a meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Marat Khusnullin at a meeting with Deputy Prime Ministers on current issues
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues. Remarks by Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Saveliev
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
First of all, about the decisions adopted with respect to our border areas: Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions.
The President drew special attention to the need to help the people who were forced to abandon their houses, settlements and villages. To repair the entire transport and other infrastructure, stable operation of industrial and agricultural enterprises and support business people and their workforce.
To fulfill this task, the Government, at the President’s instruction, drafted a comprehensive restoration and development programme for these regions. It is intended to create comfortable conditions for our citizens and for efficiently doing business.
We will build hospitals and outpatient clinics, kindergartens and schools, repair motor roads, bridges, boiler houses and sports clubs.
Mr Manturov, please tell is in greater detail about the planned measures and organisation of these works in general.
Denis Manturov: Mr Mishustin, colleagues.
Denis Manturov at a meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
The programme to rehabilitate Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions, worked out at the President’s instruction, is a follow-up to the state support measures for the three regions that is already being implemented.
Last and this year we made an emphasis on making monetary payments to the people, on providing them benefits and housing certificates in the total amount of over 150 billion roubles. Many were forced to leave their homes. Therefore, the new programme is primarily intended to restore conditions for their return to their native land.
The focus is on addressing issues related to raising security and restoring transport, energy, utilities, information and, of course, social infrastructure in populated areas. To this end, the Government and regional authorities have developed about 60 measures. We presume that a comprehensive work on all the issues is only possible so far in populated areas located more than 30 kilometres away from the line of contact.
This is a relatively safe area where mine clearing has been performed. It allows us to repair hundreds of kilometres of roads and about 20 bridges, restore housing, utility, health care, cultural and sports facilities as well as the electrical grid and gas distribution infrastructure, cell towers and the Internet.
In addition, the new programme provides for support to agricultural business, industrial enterprises and diverse small companies, including through creating new economic growth points using preferential regimes, beneficial funding investment projects and opening industrial and technological parks.
As for the populated areas close to the frontline, less than 30 kilometres away, we give priority to mine clearing, restoring civil defence facilities to their normal condition, retrofitting of firefighting and rescue units and other special services. In terms of repairs, the focus will be on the most important facilities that determine the life support in the area and performance of the state social functions. In economic terms, assistance to affected enterprises and support for operating businesses are key measures there.
In aggregate, the programme provides about 80 billion roubles in financing for all its measures in 2025–2027. It makes it possible to fund its tasks immediately. Heads of the regions are to submit their scheduled plans this week and the measures execution will be checked against them every month.
Given the specifics of the situation, repair and construction works are ruled out in the danger areas. Almost all residents have been relocated from these areas. At the same time, master plans are being prepared for the settlements, which are actually closed for the time being. These plans will serve as the basis for determining the scope of work, deadlines and financing. This way, we hope to restore normal life as much as possible throughout the Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions and give these regions the necessary encouragement for advanced development.
Mikhail Mishustin: Thank you. It is necessary to complete all measures on schedule, with due feedback from local residents, in order to restore homes, social facilities and enterprises, so that people could resume their normal life.
And now, let us discuss expanded construction of motorways and their modernisation. As the President has noted, transport and logistics are foundation of expanded economic activity and comfort. This is very important for enhancing connectivity of our vast country that boast extremely diverse climatic and weather conditions.
As instructed by the President, a system of measures has been drafted to facilitate a more cost-effective modernisation of roads. We have approved a plan for implementing them; the plan aims to achieve goals of the five-year national project Infrastructure for Life.
Mr Marat Khusnullin, please tell us in greater detail about the expansion of the street and road network.
Marat Khusnullin at a meeting with Deputy Prime Ministers on current issues
Marat Khusnullin: Mr Mishustin, colleagues.
The Presidential Executive Order lists a national development goal, specifically, improving living standards in core communities by 30 percent until 2030 and by 60 percent until 2036.
To achieve this goal, we need to prioritise the development of the social, energy, utility, information and telecommunications infrastructure, including the street and road network of communities.
We have approved an action plan for streamlining and improving the situation in this sphere, in execution of the President’s instruction, following an assessment of enforcing legislation and various decisions to expand the street and road and network and to bring it in conformity with specific standards.
The first package includes measures to streamline the regulatory legal framework. There are plans to formalise a procedure for pinpointing hazardous road sections and issuing recommendations to draft and implement measures for eliminating such sections. We will also formalise criteria for pinpointing areas with the highest road accident rates, and this will make it possible to improve road safety levels.
Second, the plan stipulates measures to improve statistical monitoring methods, including the introduction of targeted indicators, to bring the street and road network in conformity with the relevant standards. This includes efforts to assess the state of core communities’ streets and roads, as well as to determine initial monitoring data.
We did not monitor these parameters in the past and delegated this function to municipalities and regional authorities. Nor was this data linked with all roads. From now on, we will regularly monitor them.
According to the approved plan, the third package obliges the regions to enter data about the road and street network of communities in the system for monitoring the accumulation of road repair funding and its disbursement. This will take place during the stage-by-stage conversion to digital platform solutions for prompt oversight purposes.
All these measures to accomplish the main objective – creating a people-friendly and safe environment. They will directly influence the safety of road networks and their quality. Reliable roads are the foundation of the entire country’s prosperity and that of all its citizens. They are foundation of a stable economy, timely medical treatment, affordable education and confidence in tomorrow. When the roads are in order, goods and services are delivered on time, ambulance teams manage to save lives, and children reach schools safely. People do not care whether the roads are financed by federal, regional or municipal authorities. It is therefore highly important that we work comprehensively inside and outside various communities.
We have signed memorandums with all regions. We have assumed obligations, and we inspect all roads using various systems. Here is a positive example: We have signed these memorandums with new regions until 2030, and these documents include federal, regional and municipal roads. We have even listed all streets in core communities, including specific resurfacing deadlines and sources of funding. We want to complete this comprehensive work across the country using this action plan.
I would like to thank President of Russia Vladimir
Putin for support. Mr Mishustin, I would like to thank you for constantly
paying attention to the road sector’s issues. And I would also like to thank
all colleagues for this large-scale work. I hope that it will really improve
the quality of roads.
Mikhail Mishustin: Thank you.
Of course, comfort and safety are important for every citizen of Russia, and they depend, in no small measure, on modern, high-quality roads and motorways.
Mr Khusnullin, I would like to ask you to keep these issues under personal control.
Another decision is aimed at additional support of flights in the Far East. Given its unique geography and challenging climate, air transport there is of strategic importance.
This issue remains under the constant attention of the President, and it was discussed most recently at the Eastern Economic Forum.
People must have more opportunities to travel between cities across the macroregion, including the most remote and hard-to-reach areas. To address this, we have expanded the discounted flight programme within the federal district, upon the President’s instructions. A new route – between Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Vladivostok – has been added, following the requests of local residents. After all, the only way to reach the mainland from the peninsula is by air. Now, ticket prices on this route will be fixed.
Overall, the Government continues to actively subsidise domestic passenger flights – not only on socially significant routes, such as to the Kaliningrad Region and Far Eastern cities, but also on many others, to promote direct flights without transfers in Moscow.
It is important that these flights are becoming more affordable for young people, large families, and other priority groups.
Mr Savelyev, please report on how this work is progressing and on its overall results.
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues. Remarks by Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Saveliev
Vitaly Saveliev: Mr Mishustin, colleagues,
Thank you, Mr Mishustin, for the decision to strengthen support for air travel in the Far East.
In line with the Government’s resolution of 6 September, Rosaviatsiya will allocate additional 148.5 million roubles to finance flights on the socially significant Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky – Vladivostok route and return for passengers permanently registered in the regions of the Far Eastern Federal District.
Under this resolution, we plan to carry 6,500 people between 1 September and 30 November, 2025.
In Russia, there are three subsidy programmes that support air travel. They provide for subsidised fares for socially vulnerable citizens, support for regional flights bypassing Moscow, and subsidies for flights on socially significant routes in the Far Eastern Federal District.
In 2024, the Government allocated 39.7 billion roubles to support civil aviation: 11 billion roubles for closed airports in southern Russia, and 28.7 billion roubles to fly passengers under the three subsidy programmes. Of this, 22.7 billion roubles went to the Far East.
In total, 5.4 million passengers were carried under these programmes last year, including 2.5 million on 134 Far Eastern routes.
This year, we plan to carry about 5 million passengers under the three programmes, with 24.6 billion roubles allocated for subsidies. Almost 16 billion roubles of this amount is earmarked for routes in the Far Eastern Federal District, where we expect to carry 1.6 million passengers on 147 routes.
In 2024, the Far Eastern air company Aurora carried about 2.6 million passengers.
In addition, Aeroflot’s has a flat-rate programme in place for over 10 years, with over 11 million passengers carried in the Far East under this programme.. Since 15 May, this programme has been expanded to include flights from Moscow to nine Far Eastern cities and back.
Mr Mishustin, the Ministry of Transport and Rosaviatsiya will continue working to ensure affordable air travel across Russia, particularly in the Far East.
Mikhail Mishustin: Thank you, Mr Saveliev.
We must continue making all necessary decisions to support air transport, expand its accessibility, improve infrastructure, and modernise airports and runways, many of which are heavily worn. This is especially critical in regions where airplanes remain the only means of connection.
