MOSCOW, October 12 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered to allocate over 965 million roubles from the government’s reserve for reconstruction of roads hit by the recent flood in the Far East, the governmental press service said on Saturday.
During the flood, over 2,000 kilometres of regional and local roads were affected, the authorities say. Destroyed are about 1,400 kilometres of the roads in regions, which had been flooded.
The government allocates from its reserves 965 million 700 thousand roubles to reconstruction of the roads.