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.
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