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Medvedev: Government Moves Outside Ring Road

12.04.2012 14:34 / VZGLYAD

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered new proposals for the relocation of federal legislative, executive and judicial bodies to the Greater Moscow area. He also issued assignments for science and education, transport, economics, sport and healthcare, Kremlin press office announced on Thursday.

Medvedev ordered relocation proposals for the Federation Council, the State Duma, executive federal bodies, their territorial branches, the Presidential Executive Office, the Government, the State Prosecutor’s Office, the Investigation Committee and the Audit Chamber, according to the Presidential Assignment on the Kremlin website.

The center of Moscow will also be vacated by the Supreme Arbitration Court of Russia, the Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region, 9th Arbitration Appeals Court, the Supreme Court of Russia, the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court and Moscow City Court.

Transport: Medvedev commissioned proposals from the Ministry of Transport, the Moscow Government and Russian Railways for Kiev-bound railway development to serve the new Moscow territories, high-speed train schedule included.

Proposals include Kaluzhsky Highway renovation and traffic lights elimination en route to the Moscow city center.

Russian Roads state company will draft a project of the Central Ring Road (CRR) in a joint effort with the Moscow and Moscow Region authorities. The CRR toll segment is due to go into construction stage in 2014.

Education and Healthcare: Medvedev ordered optimization of federal and city higher school location and campuses for research institutes on the new territories. President says this will generate a human resources supply for Moscow and ease traffic congestion.

The head of state also ordered Troitsk to retain science town status for a 5-year period, with a new research and training center established by the Tech Institute for Superhard & New Carbon Materials and Moscow Physics and Technology Institute. Experts will also create support infrastructure for the center.

Sports: The Ministry of Sports and Tourism of Russia will draft joint proposals with the Moscow City Government to base 2018 World Football Cup training facilities on new Moscow territories.

Healthcare: Moscow City Government, Health and Social Services Ministry, Ministry for Economic Development and Sberbank will form proposals on the New Moscow International Healthcare Cluster, “including hospitals, educational and research facilities with a specially designated legal status”.

We have reported earlier that on Monday President Medvedev held a meeting on new Moscow city limits. The meeting resulted in abolishing old methods of city planning for new territories. The President said that new territories should feature comfortable housing, offices, hotels, parks, sports grounds. High-rise buildings are not an option.

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin pointed out that this is not a merger of Moscow and the region, but a new Moscow agglomeration. He also said that the transport infrastructure focus in New Moscow is on new roads and an active railway service.

Project Group №5Sergei Sobyanin