The Minister of Transport of Crimea was replaced due to the crossing and the interests of the head of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation
Moscow – Kyiv, March 31 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) – According to "Kommersant", Moscow replaced the Minister of Transport of Crimea due to the conflict around the Kerch crossing. Last year, Crimea was able to take control over it from the structures of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, but already in February Moscow put forward claims against the region due to the delay in its reconstruction.
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Yesterday, the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, appointed Andrei Bezsalov as minister of transport of the republic; his predecessor, Anatoly Tsurkin, submitted his resignation on March 30. There is no official comment in Crimea on what this reshuffle is connected with, but the publication’s source in the local government believes that Mr. Tsurkin lost his position because he failed to cope with “organizing the work of the crossing across the Kerch Strait.” “The reconstruction of the berths continued two months longer than planned, and the queues at the ports of Crimea and Kavkaz did not disappear,” he notes.
The publication’s interlocutor, close to the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, adheres to the same version, according to whom Moscow was dissatisfied with the work of the Crimean Ministry of Transport and Anatoly Tsurkin. In recent months, there has been a hardware struggle between departments, mainly related to who will manage the Kerch crossing. In February, Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Viktor Olersky said that if Crimea still cannot cope with cargo and passenger traffic, management of the crossing will again transfer to the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation. Crimea delayed the reconstruction of the crossing, which was planned to be completed on March 31, and of the 2014 million allocated in 470, only 9 million rubles were spent.
Another interlocutor of the publication did not rule out that the appointment was not without the approval of Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation Igor Levitin, who showed interest in transport projects in Crimea.
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