Ministry of Finance: We will not give trillions to the Caucasus

The Ministry of Finance does not coordinate the state program "Development of the North Caucasus Federal District for the period until 2025" in the volume proposed by the Ministry of Regional Development-3.9 trillion rubles, including 2.6 trillion rubles from the federal budget. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the Deputy Minister of Finance Tatyana Nesterenko. "We will not agree on the program in such volumes, everything will be within the budget," Nesterenko said in Kislovodsk, where a meeting of the Government Commission on the Social and Economic Development of the North Caucasus is being held.

“Or we get that all the expenses that the federal budget have from the general context and begin to consider policies in the development of individual regional clusters, or we, realizing the stately in the field of education, healthcare, transport, industry, are highlighted, including priorities in the part that is necessary for the implementation in this regional territory,” said Nesterenko.

Earlier at a meeting of the commission, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that Russia would not abandon the competitive advantages of the Caucasian region, which "was famous for talented people in the days of the USSR." At the same time, he admitted that it was restless in the region. “Maybe I’ll say something like that. But if tourists come, and the local staff will be borrowed for soft places, maybe someone will like it, but not everyone will come, and there will be a few who want to come,” Putin said.

He called the “erroneous thesis” the reasoning that the highlanders cannot force themselves to “serve tourists”. “The highlanders are a proud people, but they are created not only to fight. There are many talented people - poets, writers, and engineers, and scientists, and military,” the prime minister said.

He recalled that even during the Soviet Union, "everyone knew that in the Caucasus there are very good builders who were strolling throughout the country." “The one who speaks about serving tourists is wrong. Tourism is a very important sector of the economy of many countries. When the well -being of local residents may come from this, the mentality changes very quickly, the understanding comes very quickly that this is not serving, but the work, prestigious, requiring special training and high qualifications,” Putin emphasized.

The prime minister emphasized that Russia "should not abandon the competitive advantages of the Caucasian region." He expressed confidence that the attitude to the tourism industry will change when large investors come here, who will put this work at the European level. "I will allow myself to suggest that when this volume of business will increase, local entrepreneurs will not really allow someone to go and break their business," the prime minister said.

On August 1, it became known that the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development failed to coordinate the development program of the North Caucasus, which provides for the allocation of 3.9 trillion rubles until 2025. According to the director of the Department of the Ministry of Regional Development Nikita Isaev, the document will be sent to the government with the comments of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development. According to another source in the Ministry of Regional Development, the costs of the Caucasus are a political decision, which is impossible to make at the level of departments, so the document is made with disagreement.

On July 26, Kommersant said that the volume of targeted expenses of the authorities for the development of the North Caucasus until 2025 will be more than 3.8 trillion rubles. This amount was recorded in the regional Ministry of Regional Development, prepared by the Ministry of Regional Development, the state development program. Most of the funds, according to the department of the department, will provide the federal budget.

The new budget of the state program is almost ten times higher than the expenses of the current FCP: the total volume of the South of Russia program was approved in the amount of 145.486 billion rubles, 124.027 billion rubles were allocated for Chechnya, Ingushetia - 32,242 billion rubles. A third of the total state program, about 1.2 trillion rubles, will have to invest in Dagestan. The republic is the leader in terms of the volume of extra -budgetary funds planned to attract - 414 billion rubles.

Some entities with independent financing allocated a suburban district of North Ossetia and Caucasian mineral waters. Their budgets will amount to 8.9 billion and 213.8 billion rubles, respectively. As a representative of the Ministry of Regional Development explained to the newspaper, the allocation of these regions in certain articles is associated with government plans for the development of territories. According to the report of the Ministry of Regional Development on the situation on the economy of the subjects, on June 28, almost all republics were among the list of the most investment unattractive regions of Russia.

In January 2011, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of Regional Development to develop a state program for the development of the North Caucasus until 2025, which, as part of the transition since 2012, would have replaced three key FCPs for new program and targeted resources use of budget resources. As sources in the government explained to Kommersant, the transition to a single state program is necessary to "significantly improve control over the implementation of projects in the North Caucasus, and it would simplify the procedure for interacting with the federal center." Victor Basargin, the head of the Ministry of Regional Development, promised to introduce the agreed version of the project to the government by August 1.