The authorities of Sevastopol will not be punished for failing to implement the funds allocated by Russia under the Federal Target Program (FTP) for 2019-20 for the restoration of Crimea after being part of Ukraine.
This was announced by the recently appointed acting governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The federal center will not apply penalties for all our unused funds this year. There is a clause that if there is a change of senior official, then no penalties will be imposed on the subject for that year. But next year we need to do this so that the federal center does not have such reasons,” the official said.
According to him, the previously approved program for 2019 and 2020 could not be implemented because difficulties arose with the design of federal target program facilities.
The acting governor is confident that in 2021 Sevastopol will finally be able to fulfill the federal program. To do this, Razvozhaev proposes to break contracts with those contractors who fail to cope within a month.
Let us recall that in early August, Razvozhaev, at a meeting with Vladimir Putin, promised that Sevastopol would use about 100 billion rubles allocated from the federal budget.
“They are absolutely achievable, for some positions, I think Sevastopol will be able to complete them even ahead of schedule, taking into account the funds allocated under the Federal Target Program,” Razvozhaev quotes this on the official Kremlin website for August 12.
In 2018, the Crimean authorities spent 93% (RUB 64,9 billion) of the Federal Target Program funds, while the Sevastopol authorities spent only 60–63%.