Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced to members of the Sevastopol city government that the Crimean Republic is now fully integrated with the Russian economy, infrastructure, and judiciary. Additionally, many various upgrades of the Republic’s infrastructure were and are required, including roads, electrical grid, water supply systems, fuel supply networks, and transportation.
RT reports
The Crimean Republic has completed integration with Russia’s economy, infrastructure and judiciary, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced while speaking to members of the Sevastopol city government.
“We faced an unprecedented task, both in its difficulty and in its scale – we had to integrate the peninsula in the Russian legal, infrastructure and economic fields. Today we can say that the hardest stage is over and we have started the more stable and planned work regime,” RIA Novosti quoted Medvedev as saying on Monday.
The Russian PM also added that the process of Crimea’s integration had required dozens of out-of-the box solutions in rebuilding the electricity grid, the water supply system as well as fuel supply and transportation networks.
“The communal facilities and roads on the peninsula have not been repaired since the Soviet times, they completely exhausted their resource. Our main goal was to set better standards for life and rest on the peninsula,” Medvedev said.
Earlier in the day the head of the Russian cabinet participated in the launch ceremony of the brand-new Russian passenger hydrofoil Kometa-120M in Sevastopol. The new vessel will start regular voyages between Crimean cities of Sevastopol and Yalta as soon as August 1.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry issued a protest note saying the Prime Minister’s visit to Crimea was not coordinated with Ukrainian authorities.
Of course, Kiev is upset that the Russians are even thinking about Crimea, let alone sinking money into its infrastructure, or having the gall to label it a part of the Russian Federation. Meanwhile, as long as it was a part of the Ukraine, the Crimean infrastructure didn’t receive the attention it required and deserved, and hasn’t seen improvement since Soviet times.
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