“Bereaved families will each be issued 1 million roubles from the federal budget and 1 million roubles from the budgets of both the Krasnodar Territory and the Pskov Region,” Dmitry Medvedev said. He added that “one-off payments will be provided to compensate for the loss of property.”

Dmitry Medvedev states the need for the creation of the national budget website. Medvedev said: “Our people have the right to know how the state funds are spent, how the federal budget is formed and how the federal budget funds are spent.”

Vladivostok and most of the facilities are ready for APEC Leaders’ Week – Prime Minister

The prime minister believes that “it is necessary to search for new development and growth points, which will eventually determine the potential of Kamchatka, the Far East and Eastern Siberia for the next 30-50 years”

Dmitry Medvedev said he had decided to extend the programme to increase the quake resistance of residential buildings, infrastructure facilities and other systems in Russia’s quake-prone regions to 2018.