Two days are left before the official review of the program for the
development of the North Caucasus Federal District by the Russian
government starts. In a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, the
presidential plenipotentiary envoy to the North Caucasus Federal
District, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin, said that the
program will be ready by December 1.
Meanwhile, the financial side of the District program remains to be
clarified. According to sources of the Izvestia newspaper, the
federal budget will allocate only 316.4 billion rubles for the
development of the region until 2025. Initially, the Ministry of
Regional Development pledged 2.6 trillion rubles.
As for the distribution of funds from year to year, it has not been
done yet. Based on the date presented by the Ministry of Regional
Development at the meeting of the presidential envoy to the North
Caucasus Federal District Alexander Khloponin with the agency, 115.3 billion
rubles will be spent from 2013-2015, while the majority will be spent
in 2013, during the completion of the "South of Russia" program.
In the following five years up to 2020, 201.14 billion rubles will be
allocated from federal funds.
The North Caucasus republics will have to allocate about 23.3 billion rubles.
It is possible that the cabinet of ministers is going to cut funding
for a number of program areas in the North Caucasus Federal District.
