On July 15, the aggressor’s government announced “an extension of the implementation period of the state program for the development of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol until 2030,” which was immediately “optimistically reported” to the population of the peninsula by the invaders-controlled “media”.
Let us recall that this “program,” previously announced until 2027, became a “replacement” for the so-called “federal target program for the development of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol,” which since 2014 has become an attempt to portray the occupied peninsula as a propaganda “showcase of the Russian world,” as well as a form of militarization of the region, within the framework of the construction of military and related infrastructure, such as the “Crimean Bridge,” two power plants and the “Tavrida Highway.”
The “federal program”, as an inexhaustible source of corrupt enrichment throughout the entire “vertical”, was closed down quite suddenly for many, including the “Crimean authorities” at the end of 2021, in preparation for large-scale aggression and with the Kremlin’s understanding that the aforementioned “showcase” began to exist only in the parallel reality of Russian propaganda.
The “state program” actually allowed a number of Moscow oligarchs, primarily the Kovalchuk clan and Arkady Rotterberg, to “finish off funds” on “infrastructure projects”, and its final goal was to transfer the peninsula “to self-sufficiency” by 2027, which is predictably not expected, and no one will clearly have time to complete the peninsula’s long-term construction projects from 2022 during the “next five-year plan”.
Earlier we wrote about the forced admission of collaborators from the “state council” that “financial assistance” from the Kremlin in the first quarter of 2025 allegedly amounted to 29.5 billion rubles, which is “almost half less than last year’s level.” A simple calculation helps to understand that in 2025 in Crimea, not counting Sevastopol, they plan to “master” no more than 120 billion “Kremlin subsidies”, and the “budget hole”, even compared to the previous year, will be at least 110 billion, and there is nowhere to cover it from, all the criminal “nationalizations” and “tax increases” do not cover even a quarter of this figure, even in the long term.
This figure generally coincides with the January statements of the Kremlin officialdom that the peninsula is expecting, allegedly on the “personal instructions” of the Kremlin dictator, “the allocation of funds from the federal budget in the amount of at least 110 billion rubles annually,” precisely under the “continued state program,” that is, exactly half as much as the previous “reduced infusions” in 2022-2024.
The fact that “belt-tightening” has become the Kremlin’s final decision in the long term is also indicated by the current promised in propaganda allegedly main goals of the “state program” until 2030, such as repair of “1.2 thousand kilometers of roads”, or “equipping part of the exits from the Tavrida highway”, which clearly does not correspond to some “strategic development”.
Regarding the long-suffering treatment facilities and the medical cluster in Sevastopol, the occupiers only promise to “continue construction”, without any clear deadlines. There were also promises to “finance the restoration of coastal protection structures”, but mainly “on the territory of the yacht marina in Sevastopol”, criminally given by the Kremlin “as an inheritance” to the same Rotenberg.
Thus, the Kremlin has finally signed off on the long-term nature of its criminal policy of “belt-tightening” on the occupied peninsula, without any prospects for its population.
