Continuing his trip to the Far East, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin spent a few days in Kamchatka, where he discussed the issues of gasification of the region and met with local businessmen. Traditionally, regional entrepreneurs asked the Prime Minister about the extension of benefits for them — for example, repeatedly raised the issue of reduced rate of insurance premiums for residents of areas of advanced development (TOR). Some were asked to do a perpetual privilege, which applies for ten years from the date of registration of the resident. Others at the meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko proposed to calculate this term, since the actual launch of the project.In his far Eastern trip, the Prime Minister dedicated the Kamchatka Peninsula several days. The theme of the Prime Minister’s activities have been very diverse — for example, on Friday, Mikhail Mishustin visited the Kamchatka regional hospital, which was dissatisfied with (the current building is worn out by 80%, and a new hospital is under construction since 2013), a fishing farm, and also held a meeting on electrification and gasification of the far Eastern Federal district.The Prime Minister said in the far East the level of electrification and gasification are lower than in average in Russia, because of the fragmentation of the energy system of the Far East and the deterioration of generating capacities, while the load on them increases. According to Michael mishustina, last year energy consumption in the far East increased by more than 2.7%, when in Russia as a whole the demand will decrease by 1.3%.We also discussed the support of consumers: informed the energy Ministry has prepared a bill providing for the extension of the reduced rate for electricity until 2028 for small and medium-sized businesses, residents of TOR and the free port of Vladivostok. For the rest it is proposed to gradually raise tariffs to economically reasonable level — for example, for the enterprises of fuel and energy complex and precious stones and metals, it must be done within three years, and for consumers, the financing of activities which are performed at the expense of the budget, and organizations of housing and communal services — five. This document requested the Prime Minister to make to the White house in the next two weeks.On Saturday, Mikhail Mishustin met with public representatives of the Kamchatka region, to listen to their suggestions for improving the quality of life in the region. The Prime Minister said the influx of young people on the Peninsula decreased (if in the 1970-ies of the young people was about 30% of the local population, now it is about 10%), so you should return the Peninsula “Soviet romance”. For example, the General Director of “Vityaz-Aero” Viktor Sirotin, made for distribution for the purchase of helicopters subsidies on lease payments, and the Deputy Director of “MS-bunker” Boris Lavrentiev prosIl do for residents of TOR benefits on deduction of insurance contributions (for ten years for them will pay a lower rate of 7.6% instead of 30%) over time. However, with the last sentence Michael Mishustin has suggested to wait and wait for 2025, when the company will expire of its application, in General this idea was welcomed by the Prime Minister with a certain skepticism, although such an extension it is still not excluded. So, Michael Mishustin has reminded that insurance payments are sent, in particular, for the construction of hospitals, Recalling, on a rather sad state of the Kamchatka regional hospital. “If you consider the amount of benefits, it is not enough and 20% on good, modern hospital,” he said.A rather unexpected part of the Prime Minister’s trip was to conduct a field meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko on the development of ecotourism, and it was held in a somewhat informal setting at the recreation center (the official and the participants were dressed in almost-camp). So, the Deputy Prime Minister announced that today the government will consider the first version of the passport of the national project for tourism: the world’s increase in eco-tourists annually, is up 30% and in the total structure of the Russian tourist market accounts for 2%, therefore, according to the official, this direction should become the “locomotive” of the national project, and it is “in everyone’s pies” cost tourism accounts for about a quarter.Discussed and specific projects: in Kamchatka plan to create a Park “Three volcanoes”, in which investments in the state, as Chairman of the Board of Directors, OOO “Park “Three volcanoes”” Sergey Bachin, can be doubled (while total amount of investments drawn up more than 39 billion rubles, including 15 billion rubles— private investment and more than 24 billion rubles— state). So, Mr Bachin raised the issue of benefits deduction of premiums, but he wasn’t talking about the extension of preferences for an indefinite period, and the change in the method of its application: to calculate ten-year term not from the date of registration of the company in THOR, but with the launch of the project in operation. As reported the Deputy head of the Ministry Sergey Terziev, investments in the construction of a 30-kilometer road to the foot of Vilyuchinsky volcano is estimated at 5 billion rubles, another 11 billion rubles of government investment required for the creation of public infrastructure. In this regard, the Ministry supported the proposal of the investors and was asked to give instructions to the Agency, Rostourism and the Ministry of transport to consider allocating these funds.Evgenia Kryuchkova, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
