The sanctioned Sangadzhi Tarbaev, chairman of the committee on tourism and tourism infrastructure development of the aggressor’s state duma, said on July 15 that in the occupied Crimea “the flow of tourists has decreased by an average of 25-30%” and “small and medium-sized businesses have lost up to 50% of customers”.
Tarbaev said that his committee had approached Russia’s prime minister Mikhail Mishustin with a criminal “request to consider the possibility of compensating for shortfalls in revenues from the federal budget” of the fake “budgets of Crimea and Sevastopol”, allegedly “necessary to provide additional measures to support small and medium-sized businesses engaged in tourism”.
What is noteworthy in this statement of the Kalmyk deputy is not the recognition of the failure of the Kremlin’s propaganda myth about the “resort peninsula”, albeit with embellished figures, but another self-incrimination.
Let us recall that just ten days ago, the aggressor’s propaganda stated that money “in exchange for tourists” had already been “allocated” from the same Mishutin, in the amount of 2.5 billion rubles.
Then we wrote that, of course, no “employees of the tourism industry” would see these funds, allegedly for “four minimum wages”, and now the occupiers themselves recognized the ephemeral nature of these “subsidies”.
However, new “reimbursements” in the event of their “allocation” will go approximately to the same place as the mentioned 2.5 billion, and obviously will not reach any “tourism industry”.
