Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Naryshkin (right) with First Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov
Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin
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Naryshkin Put in Charge of Far East
After returning from vacation especially to attend a session of the government yesterday, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov was unable to decide who should control $22.3 billion (566 billion rubles) in budget funds earmarked for investment in federal target programs through 2013 in the Transbaikal region and Russian Far East. That sum includes $5.8 billion for preparations for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vladivostok in 2012. He unexpectedly handed the issue to Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Naryshkin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin assigned Fradkov personal responsibility for development projects in the Far East and Transbaikal and Fradkov had not shared that responsibility previously. The government intends to reconstruct 22 airports and 13 sea ports, build 6500 km. of roads and a ferry crossing to Sakhalin, in addition to summit preparations in Vladivostok.
The main topic of yesterday's meeting was the mechanics of financing the projects. Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin insists that the projects be financed through the federal treasury with the ministries interested in the results of the work (the Transportation Ministry, for example) controlling the expenditures and work of the contractors. Minister of Economic Development and Trade German Gref is in favor of forming a unitary government agency to oversee the work. Naryshkin supported Gref. The question will be discussed further.
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All the Article in Russian as of Aug. 03, 2007
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