SEVASTOPOL, July 30. /TASS/. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev noted that the most difficult stage of Crimea’s integration into the Russian economic and infrastructural space has been completed, he said at a meeting on the socio-economic development of Crimea and Sevastopol.
"Today we can say that the most difficult stage has ended, and we started a more quite scheduled work," the prime minister stressed. He noted that it is necessary to create "totally different standards of life, standards of holidaymaking, a new social environment and turn Crimea into a rapidly developing region."
According to Medvedev, more than one-third of events and facilities were completed as part of the operating federal target program on the Crimean development, and more than half are still underway. The latter include the construction of roads, social facilities, the energy complex and the engineering infrastructure. "Still, Crimea noticeably differs from what it used to be four years ago, and everyone knows it," the prime minister stated. The electrical shortage was filled on the peninsula, and a new bridge to Crimea was built.
Speaking about the development of the peninsula during the past four years, the prime minister reiterated that the authorities faced unprecedented tasks concerning Crimea’s reintegration into the legal, infrastructural and economic space of the Russian Federation. "We made dozens of nonstandard decisions on energy supply, water supply, gasification and transportation supply," Medvedev stated. "In the past the region was insufficiently financed for decades.".