The agenda: partial debt relief on budget loans for regions, support measures for industrial enterprises, budget allocations for expanding road infrastructure, support for the subsidised interregional flight programme, and a review of the results of the Best Municipal Practice competition.
Government meeting
Government meeting
Government meeting
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks:
Good afternoon, colleagues.
Before moving on to the Government meeting agenda, I’d like to highlight several recently made decisions.
The Government continues to place strong emphasis on regional development, ensuring that investment projects are carried out across our cities and towns, that active progress is made towards national goals, and that local areas continue to improve. Achieving these large-scale and often complex objectives demands substantial resources.
To this end, following the President’s instructions, a mechanism has been introduced allowing regions to write off two-thirds of their budget loan debt. This measure eases their financial burden and enables the redirected funds to be used primarily for modernising housing and utilities infrastructure, relocating residents from dilapidated housing, and purchasing public transportation vehicles. More than half of Russia’s regions have already taken advantage of this initiative this year, leaving nearly 200 billion roubles in local budgets.
We will now additionally write off about 28 billion roubles in budget loans for 15 regions across the country. These regions had previously directed funds to support participants in the special military operation, providing one-time payments to our defenders and their families, as well as covering utility costs, transport taxes, children’s education, and summer recreation programmes for children.
We will continue to assist Russian regions in tackling key social and economic challenges.
One of the key priorities the Government has been actively pursuing in recent years is the development of a supply-side economy, a topic the President has repeatedly emphasised.
The central aspect of this effort is expanding domestic production, with concessional loans from industrial development funds serving as a key instrument. These loans help businesses launch new enterprises, strengthen existing ones, boost the output of machinery, equipment, and components, localise technologies, and create new jobs.
To enhance the effectiveness of this support, an additional 1.4 billion roubles will be allocated to recapitalise six regional funds. This applies to institutions operating in the Vologda, Kaliningrad, Rostov, and Tambov regions, as well as the Khabarovsk Territory and the Chechen Republic.
These funds will support the implementation of at least 25 investment projects across sectors such as mechanical engineering, metallurgy, aviation and automotive industries, the light
industry, petrochemicals, and more. They will also help advance technological
and industrial sovereignty.
Let us now move to our agenda. First of all, it is support for the regions in building roads and major infrastructure projects. Systemic work, conducted in accordance with specialised national projects, makes it possible to increase nationwide connectivity, to ensure effective logistics, as well as safe and comfortable passenger traffic.
Today, we will discuss the allocation of 1.4 billion roubles for the budgets of three Russian regions, specifically, the Kaliningrad and Kirov regions and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area. This will make it possible to continue expanding the required motorway infrastructure.
Of this sum, 500 million roubles will be used to reconstruct the second stage of a circular route, to continue work in the Seaside Recreational Zone of the Kaliningrad Region and to build a road section between two transport interchanges, towards Zelenogradsk and Baltiysk. The President spoke about the importance of this project, the so called Seaside Ring, at a meeting on the region’s socioeconomic development. Anton Alikhanov is well aware of this. The President emphasised that the completion of all phases of the project would help tourists reach their leisure destinations quicker and more comfortably, and that this would improve the traffic situation across the region.
As instructed by the President, we will allocate 500 million roubles for improving the adjacent infrastructure of a bridge across the Ob River near Surgut. We will also allocate 400 million roubles for building a railway overpass in Kirov.
I will ask the Ministry of Transport to closely monitor the disbursement of funding, so that all planned projects are completed on time and in full volume. Here is another highly significant social issue, namely, support for discounted interregional flights, including flights from the Far East. This issue is under constant presidential control.
One can reach many areas across Russia only by air because our country is so huge. Affordable air traffic is important for all those who live or work there. The same is true of people who would simply like to visit far-away places in our country. Young people, large families, senior citizens or people with disabilities find this particularly important. The Government will subsidise air ticket prices so that they can visit far-away cities and remote areas. About 80 such routes are available in 2025, and tens of thousands of people use these routes each year.
Today, we will allocate over 1.4 billion roubles for reimbursing companies that provide reduced rates.
We will certainly continue to create favourable conditions for purchasing air tickets at reduced prices.
More to be posted soon.
