Not everyone in a row

The contract for the construction of the bridge connecting the island of Sakhalin with the mainland will receive the company Arkady Rotenberg Stroygazmontazh. It is reported by Bloomberg with reference to three sources familiar with the situation.

Construction is estimated at 286 billion rubles (about $ 5 billion). A fundamental decision on construction has been made, agencies close to the Kremlin and Stroygazmontazh reported. Most likely, it will be publicly announced next year. The fact that the construction of the bridge on Sakhalin will be engaged in Stroygazmontazh was also informed by a source close to the “Russian railways”, which will oversee the project, which will oversee the project.

At the same time, the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that there was no final decision on the construction of the bridge yet. Representatives of Rotenberg said that now it is premature to talk about the participation of Stroygazmontazh in this project.

On September 21, the founder of the Corruption Fund Alexei Navalny said that Stroygazmontazh received state contracts for a trillion rubles. The first consecutive dates from December 2011, the latter went to the company in the summer of 2017. It is emphasized that this calculation "does not take into account the entire Rotenberg business imperial, but only" Stroygazmontazh ".

“This is an outstanding achievement of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, of course. We must manage to drive so much money to his friend in front of the whole country. Where else is it possible?” Navalny wrote. “This beautiful figure demonstrates well why modern Russia exists - to enrich Putin and its friends. This is the real main task of the state. And it is simply brilliant.”

Rotenberg, his brother Boris and other people from Putin’s closest encirclement are included in the sanctions lists of the EU and the USA. The authorities of Western countries have repeatedly convicted them to attempts to bypass sanctions .

On February 17, 2015, between the Federal State Institution "Management of the Federal Roads" Taman Rosavtodor and LLC Stroygazmontazh signed a state contract forthe design and construction of the bridge across the Kerch Strait to the annexed Crimea. It is assumed that the movement of cars on the bridge will open in December 2018, trains - the cost of the facility is 227.9 billion rubles in the prices of the corresponding ones years.