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A bridge to the Crimea deprives other regions of the Russian Federation money on infrastructure

The volume of Federal road Fund at the end of 2016 amounted to 614 billion rubles. Regional spending on road maintenance for the year amounted to more than 700 billion rubles.

The cost of the construction of the bridge in the Crimea do not allow to implement projects on road construction in the TRANS-Baikal region, said the head of management of Federal roads in the region Evgeny Pristas.

Because of the bridge Kerch, quotes “Submedia” statement of Pristash, “almost stopped the construction of all new roads in Russia”. “They don’t have enough money in the country,” he said.

According to Pristash, similar to the situation with road construction occurred in the past, including during the preparations for the Games in Sochi and the APEC summit on the island of Russian.

In Have connection between the bridge to the Crimea and the construction of roads in Russia has denied. The construction of the bridge and roads, have informed RBC in the press-service Agency, is funded from two different Federal programs. “Reallocate money among these programs is impossible”, — stressed the Agency.

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