First, about honey. And if you believe the Minister of Regional Development Igor Slyunyaev, there is “honey” (achievements), it cannot but be. This is understandable, because even if the federal minister responsible for the development of the Russian regions reported solely on the negative side of the implementation of the federal target program, the first question that would arise after his speech would be: when you write “on your own”, Igor Nikolayevich . And so - the minister mentioned “shifts”, and, therefore, he did everything to save himself and his ministry from a new portion of criticism.
So, "honey" FTP. It turns out to be the following: in the NCFD, construction of 72 objects of engineering, municipal, tourist and transport infrastructure is underway. The construction of 11 schools and 14 medical facilities (hospitals, clinics, clinics). Industrial facilities are being built (cattle-breeding complexes, plants for the manufacture of plastic pipes and facing materials). The process of resettlement of residents from emergency housing.
At the same time, it is somewhat embarrassing that everything is still “underway”, “being built” and “underway”, although the first stage of the Federal Target Program seems to have expired last year ...
True, there is also the fact that Igor Slyunyaev defined as completed processes. In other words, during the first five-year plan for the implementation of the South of Russia program, some plans were nevertheless fulfilled in a timely manner. According to the Minister of Regional Development, such completed facilities are a school in the village of Novy Redant (Ingushetia), water communications Magas-Altievo, a greenhouse and dormitory in the same Ingushetia, construction sites for large families, more than 3,5 million square meters built housing.
The advantages of the program, if, of course, believe the government data, can be attributed to the fact that over the past five years, tax collections, preferential mortgage lending have increased, mortality has decreased, including infant mortality in the region.
To reach the level of this positive, the state had to send from the federal budget to the North Caucasus Federal District under the Federal Target Program “South of Russia” from 2008 to 2012 years, according to the most modest calculations (calculations made in the government) almost 44 billion rubles. At the same time, the plan document of the program for these purposes provided for 50,2 billion rubles. I want to believe that the Russian government managed to save more than 6 billion in the course of the program implementation ...
It was decided to transfer all the plans that were not fulfilled during the program, to a new phase, which will begin in 2014. Now government officials are going to send more than 230 billion rubles from the federal budget for the development of the NCFD, which, as can be seen, is significantly higher than the amount of funding during the first five-year period. In other words, the government does not refuse the rather impressive volumes of funding for the North Caucasus Federal District, although during one of the speeches at the same meeting, the impression might have been that the ministers were really going to make the North Caucasus live within their means and tighten their belts.
Now more about this speech. Its author is Anton Siluanov, the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, who at a meeting about the socio-economic development of the North Caucasus Federal District literally to pieces blew the state of the North Caucasian economies. At the same time, a feeling might have formed that the Russian Finance Ministry all the years of the implementation of the Federal Target Program “South of Russia” peacefully relaxed and even snored in places (both under Kudrin and under Siluanov), and suddenly Siluanov got up, and how the whole economy would spread county ...
According to the head of the Ministry of Finance, who woke up from a long hibernation, it turned out that the North Caucasus is generally an amazing region from an economic and political point of view. Here, during the implementation of the mentioned federal target program, the level of subsidies has increased 4 times (since the money itself gives tens of billions, and what else to expect, if not a growth of subsidies, note the author), the regional average share of tax collections in the regional GRP is 10%, although in Russia as a whole - 21%, tax concessions apply to 42% (!) of the population. It turns out that every second resident of the North Caucasus Federal District is a transport benefit recipient, while in a number of North Caucasian regions the preferential rate of transport tax applies even to owners of vehicles with engines whose power exceeds 150 hp. So, if you saw the amount of rubles in 7-400 by the owner of Audi Q500 in the North Caucasus in the receipt of the vehicle tax paid by the owner of the Audi QXNUMX, then don’t be surprised: the usual North Caucasian beneficiary stands next to you ...
By the way, the same Siluanov compared the tax return from the car in the whole country with the tax return in the North Caucasus Federal District. It turned out that in Russia it is approximately 2000 rubles from one machine, on average in the North Caucasus Federal District - 460 rubles. And if you add here those funds that the federal budget does not receive from paying real estate taxes (only 1 from 10 homeowners in the North Caucasus pay a full-fledged tax), then the impression begins that the North Caucasus Federal District is a place of compact residence the lion's share of all Russian beneficiaries.
However, even under the conditions of an almost universal “preferential” North Caucasus, there is a region that also enjoys additional privileges. This region is the Chechen Republic. Minister Siluanov noted that in the republic housing and communal services are paid at the level of 75% of their real value. Where else did the 25% benefit come from here? - representatives of the Chechen leadership did not specify. And will they clarify if the leadership of the republic itself was also mentioned by the Minister of Finance as the one which had long since been optimized along and across. The fact is that in the Chechen Republic the expenses for an individual official are twice as high as the average expenses in Russia, and if we talk about the “equipment” of Chechen officials with state cars, then in the Chechen Republic this figure is as much in 4,5 times as high as the national average! It's just that the officials-motorists-beneficiaries of some, and only ...
By the way, not so long ago at the Military Review, I had to get acquainted with one comment about the Chechen Republic. The reader writes something like the following: in 90-s, they started a war against Chechnya, destroyed the republic, brought grief to the local population - now pay something like a buyout ... The opinion is interesting, but without even going into the details of who and for what reason the military the conflict began, we can say: and to whom do we pay something? .. If you are sure that the money reaches ordinary citizens, helps them to work and earn money, and to increase the welfare of the republic, this is one thing. But this is just no certainty. But there is a firm conviction that money is deposited in the pockets of local kings and their nearest retinue. And this is a vicious circle. Financing those who are not interested in stopping the flow of subsidies from the Center, and therefore work somehow is not particularly ready, will lead to the subsequent degradation of the economy of the North Caucasus Federal District, even if the program is developed not for 230 billions, but for all 230 trillions of rubles ...
In general, it is clearly impossible to say that we did not suspect here of the difficulties and the intricacies of social and economic affairs in the North Caucasus. To believe that they were unaware of them in the government is generally silly. Then two questions arise: why did Siluanov "split up" right now, and why, even after he split up, the North Caucasus Federal District was promised even more impressive funding than funding during the first stage of the implementation of the target program? .. Strange, is it not true ... In the spirit: we know that they are stealing, we know who steals, and therefore we will give even more, maybe we don’t want to steal. Iron logic ...