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5 Putin's theses about construction and architecture

Today Putin traditionally met with journalists and summarized the results of the year. Interestingly, this year he received about 2 million questions, which were also processed with the help of Russian neural networks. Artificial intelligence also determined the top hot topics in the country: housing affordability, utilities, health care, food prices.
Here are 5 theses of the president that directly relate to the construction industry:

1. The situation with personnel (and labor migration) is acute. The personnel issue should be closed by increasing labor productivity. At the same time, Russia is interested in the arrival and return of highly qualified employees

2. there should be no limits on family mortgages, IT-mortgage should be preserved. “We are keeping the family mortgage at 6%. Probably, we will still talk about all sorts of mortgage cases, we will talk about construction, but the family mortgage is preserved,” Putin said.

3. escrow accounts work and protect people from possible under-construction.

4. Work to rebuild the cities in the NWO zone is an important priority. For example, Putin spoke about the construction boom in Mariupol. The President emphasized that when rebuilding houses in new regions, residents who have lost housing should receive new housing in the same area where they lived. All those who are entitled to compensation will receive it, he assured.

At least 300,000 people have already returned to Mariupol, the president said.

Putin noted that the authorities in the region are and will continue to deal with roads, schools, social, medical and cultural facilities.

“We pay a lot of attention to Mariupol, and it is deserved. It's a big city... There are somewhere around three-plus thousand apartment buildings there, I was there, I know all this, and colleagues from the government report regularly. About 1,700 houses have been rebuilt,” Putin said.

“Enough! There shouldn't even be any doubt about it!” - was Putin's response to a question about whether there would be enough resources to fully restore all the territories that Russia has liberated.

Already now 21 thousand objects have been restored. In the next five to six years, it is planned to build or restore another 30 thousand.

For example, a world-class perinatal center has been built in Donetsk. The president also said that there are plans to build a four-lane highway around the Sea of Azov.

The revival of new regions is going on at a good pace, they are entering the zone of self-sufficiency.

“As for specific regions, I would like to address their residents and say, and the whole of Russia, so that people also know throughout the country that these regions, they have a very good potential for development,” he assured.

The road around the Sea of Azov will be of the same quality as the “Tavrida” in Crimea, the president promised.

“There is a very good, already realized beginning of the theme. We plan to build a ring road around the Sea of Azov, which has become an inland sea of the Russian Federation. And it will be a road like “Tavrida” in Crimea: four-lane traffic with all the advantages of such a highway. One part has already been done,” he said.

5. Speaking of regional development, the following were discussed:

- The importance of implementing transportation projects such as Sochi. Speaking about the highway Moscow - Adler - Grozny - Makhachkala, Putin said that it is necessary to remove hour-long traffic jams at the entrance to Adler. In preparation for the Olympics, they made a bypass of Sochi, but now two streams merge there, this bottleneck must first be “widened.”

“We need to ensure passage along the Black Sea coast. We need to provide access to Sochi. And we need to destroy the traffic jams that accumulate on the approach to Adler, especially during the tourist season. People stand there for hours. This happened because when they were preparing for the Olympics, they made a bypass of Sochi, and then it turned out to be a bottleneck, an old road, which has been slightly repaired. But still two streams merge, the old stream and the stream of the Sochi bypass merge at the approach to Adler. This is what needs to be widened first,” the President said.

- According to the President, the advanced development of Kazan is one of the best cities in Europe

- Putin supported the idea of transferring the head offices of companies to the regions in order to move tax payments there and push development. The same can be done with the authorities. “We will definitely work to move large companies and some other government bodies to other regions,” he promised.

The material has been prepared according to the materials of RIA Novosti