Yakunin threatened to curtail the construction project of a high -speed highway between Moscow and Kazan

After the scandal, President of Russian Railways, after the scandal with the abolition of electric trains, did not rule out the folding of the project of the high-speed railway "Moscow-Kazan", which was previously ambitiously planned to be brought to China. According to him, the money for design has not yet been allocated, and if they do not find funds in the first quarter, then it will be possible to forget about the highway.

“If the decision is not made, then you can turn this project completely,” said Yakunin, adding that he was still optimistic and will count on the allocation of financing. “I will fight for this with my colleagues,” said the head of the Russian Railways, whose words are quoted by Interfax .

The project of the Moscow-Kazan road was to be the first to create a network of high-speed railway traffic in Russia, Vesti reports. The electrified two-way railway road is considered high-speed, along which trains move at a speed of 200-400 km/h. There are no such roads in Russia yet.

It should be noted that the Russian Railways Railways has been trying to find money since 2013. It was assumed that the Moscow -Kazan road will be built for the World Cup in 2018 and will reduce the track from Moscow to Kazan by 4 times, to 3.5 hours. In the Russian Railways, they even thought about extending the track to Beijing.

The cost of the project (without a section of the road to Beijing) was about trillion rubles. In Russian Railways, they were ready to build the first section from Moscow to Vladimir, spending about 380 billion, and find assistants-conhesioners on the rest of the sites. In December 2014, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Transport to find funding for the construction of the road: "In the amount of 6 billion rubles in 2015 and 14.9 billion rubles in 2016 with the participation of federal budget funds." However, according to the source of Interfax, the decision to allocate funds was not made, because "there is no money."

Earlier it was reported that the company in February planned to declare a tender to choose a company for designing a highway. It is noteworthy that the construction of the highway was previously criticized: in particular, experts noted that the project was unlikely to pay off, and noted that the potential flows of passengers could be overestimated, and the investment risks were high, the publication of the business quarter noted. Residents of Russia also opposed the construction of the highway, through whose possessions the railway was supposed to go: the shares and collection of signatures were reported toRBC .

It should be noted that earlier in the Russian Railways they tried to cancel the trains due to the fact that in some regions suburban trains were unprofitable, the regional authorities did not have money to finance trips. The Ministry of Transport was proposed to allocate a large amount from the anti -crisis fund in order to cover the costs of not transportation.

Earlier it was reported that due to the fall in oil prices in Russia, it may have to adjust the budget in order to equalize the costs with decreased income. The Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov announced the need to reduce the country's expenses by 600 billion rubles (in addition to the previously announced expenses by 900 billion) and reported not to index the salaries of state employees, despite the increase in prices and inflation . The Ministry of Labor was offered to save on the rehabilitation means of disabled people. And Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev also announced the allocation of funds from the reserve fund to the budget. At the same time, the State Duma is considered possible to spend 123 million rubles a year on increasing pensions to Soviet deputies.