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Vladimir Putin decided to abolish the Federal Agency for Special Construction (Spetsstroy) subordinate to the Ministry of Defense, Kommersant reports . The reason was the numerous claims of customers and authorities to the terms of execution of work and to financial discipline.

The upcoming liquidation of Spetsstroy was reported to the publication by several sources close to the Ministry of Defense, and a senior employee of the presidential administration confirmed. According to him, the decision was made by Putin "following the results of a closed meeting with the leadership of the military department."

According to the publication, all the functions of the construction of objects that ensure the defense capacity of the country will be closed directly to the Ministry of Defense. The agency will cross all the assets of the agency. The new configuration should earn in mid -2017.

Serious questions for special construction appeared in 2015, when 24 military personnel were killed due to the collapse of the section of the barracks of the 242nd training center of the Airborne Forces in Omsk. In addition, the agency had significant claims regarding the construction of East Cosmodrome objects .

According to Kommersant, last year the Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin instructed the special system to disclose information about the subcontracting companies involved in the construction of military facilities. In the final report of Rogozin, the presidential name said that the agency performs work only 15–40 percent of the value of contracts concluded. Friendly structures are not only repaired by the main volume of work, but also the creation of design and estimate documentation. The then reform of the special construction did not give results, the Kommersant notes.

After the meeting, the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu instructed to prepare a draft presidential decree on December 10 on the abolition of special construction and the assignment of tasks for the construction of special and industrial facilities.

The government has already reacted to the decision to eliminate the special construction, the interlocutors of the publication reported. Rogozin instructed Roscosmos to conclude contracts with contractors for the construction of the Eastern directly, without the participation of FSUE Dalspetsstroy.

Commenting on the information of Kommersant, the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that there are still no official decisions on the abolition of special construction and the transfer of his functions and assets to the Ministry of Defense yet. “There are no formalized solutions,” he said.