The expansion of Moscow is planned to be issued in 2011

The southwest of the Moscow Region can be attached to Moscow on January 1, 2012. About this, as reports RIA Novosti , said Deputy Mayor of Moscow Andrei Sharonov. “There is a legal study of this issue, and according to the scenario it is planned that the legal decision to join new territories to Moscow can be made before January 1, and they may already be part of Moscow since the New Year,” the official said. At the same time, new territories will receive only Moscow status, their economic development can drag on for six months and for a year, said Deputy Sobyanin.

Recall, at the suggestion of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the territory of the territory that adjoins it from the southwest, from the Moscow Ring Road to the Kaluga region, will be hill to Moscow. Recently, Sergei Sobyanin said that the idea of ​​creating a capital federal district is also not rejected. However, the mayor himself will remain at his post. It is planned to transfer federal authorities to the annexed lands.