Russian cabinet funding Flood aid, farms and regions

Jun 25

Anna Kurbatova's complete cabinet report begins with damaged homes and displaced residents in Dagestan. Pavel Kokhraidze and Minat Ibragimova describe lost or unsafe housing; Kokhraidze describes compensation, allocated plots and hoped-for resettlement. The package says spring floods destroyed more than 4,500 homes in Chechnya and 8,000 in Dagestan and virtually washed away Mamedkala; it reports an initial 50-home Derbent-area development with September occupancy planned. Mishustin and the reporter announce another 2.5 billion rubles for flood protection, including 35 kilometers of dams, and over 60 billion for subsidized agricultural lending covering more than 41,000 loans. They discuss integration of the four Ukrainian regions Russia claims as its own, reporting housing and road work, another 1.3 billion for utility equipment and 6.5 billion for third-quarter social obligations. A final decision writes off roughly 50 billion of budget-loan debt for eight named Russian regions under the two-thirds relief mechanism. These are reported decisions, resident accounts and official implementation claims; planned construction is not treated as completed.

At the June 25 Russian government meeting, Mikhail Mishustin announces a reduction of nearly 50 billion rubles in federal-budget obligations for Udmurtia and the Volgograd, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Ryazan and Chelyabinsk regions. He places it within the programme to write off two-thirds of regional budget-loan debt and direct the savings to investment. He names utility repairs, elevator replacement, unsafe-housing resettlement, public transport, key settlements, special economic zones and industrial-development funds as intended uses. His projected economic and welfare benefits are expectations, not completed results.