Login

 

Forgot password?
Vote History of votings
Subscription

Modify subscription

submarines shipbuilding Black Sea Fleet exercise Pacific Fleet Russian Navy Northern Fleet strategy cooperation Ukraine visits Russia piracy missiles trials Sevastopol history Sevmash presence contracts drills Baltic Fleet industry incident anti-piracy shipyards Gulf of Aden frigate training Somalia India developments reforms opinion Borei policy procurements Russia - India aircraft carrier Crimea arms exports USA St. Petersburg France tests financing Bulava Yury Dolgoruky Serdiukov US Navy Mediterranean cruise Zvezdochka NATO innovations United Shipbuilding Corporation Indian Navy Medvedev Arctic agreements commission Admiralteyskie Verfi Admiral Gorshkov Mistral Vladivostok accident hijacking corvettes overhaul Admiral Kuznetsov anniversary Russia - France Rosoboronexport Vysotsky ceremony event Yantar Severomorsk defense order negotiations aircraft conflict China deployment naval aviation Putin Black Sea investigations Varyag coast guard Novorossiysk Vikramaditya landing craft crime Far East marines Severnaya Verf meeting scandals memorials traditions Syria South Korea Japan escort statistics Yasen Neustrashimy tenders Marshal Shaposhnikov Admiral Chabanenko convoys Ukrainian Navy problems Severodvinsk Chirkov reinforcement tension firings tragedy technology Baltic Sea Almaz Moskva frontier service search and rescue Caspian Flotilla hostages provocation upgrade court Dmitry Donskoy keel laying rumors Turkey World War II death Admiral Panteleyev Atalanta helicopters Kilo class shipwreck Petr Veliky Kaliningrad Admiral Vinogradov Norway Rubin launching patrols Russia-Norway
Search
Strategy strategy Combat Capability [42%], Role and Missions, Structure of the Navy, in-service ships, surface ships, submarines, chronology.
Our friends russian navy weapons world sailing ships
 
Tell a friend Print version

Home / News / Russian Navy News

Moscow cuts off funding of Black Sea Fleet

Moscow cuts off funding of Black Sea Fleet 08.09.2011
Text: RusNavy.com
Photo: Black Sea Fleet ships at Russian Navy Day Parade 2011. pro-nravi.ru
During adoption of the city budget for 2011, Moscow City Council annulled Black Sea Fleet Financing Program on Sept 7, reports Kommersant.

The draft bill adopted on Sept 7 by Moscow City Council cuts down spending for budget items inherited from ex-mayor of Moscow Yury Luzhkov. In particular, it was decided to cut off financing of Black Sea Fleet. Consequently, the Moscow-Sevastopol Foundation which is the program executor has lost RUR 70.6 mln planned in 2011. Amendments were adopted after three readings and "without debates", reports Kommersant.

The funds for the program were "spent ineffectively" and were appropriated "in a very crooked way", commented Vera Chistova, the head of Moscow Department of Finance. She added that Russian defense ministry has "quite enough funds to support servicemen in Sevastopol".

Current Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin stated in Aug 2011 that "for the city, there is no sense in financing of armed forces".

Recall that the Moscow-Sevastopol Foundation was established on the initiative of Moscow Government in Oct 1994 with the purpose to preserve Black Sea Fleet after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Triennial grants were appropriated for construction of schools for Russian servicemen's children in Sevastopol, repairing of barracks, assistance to veterans, construction of dwelling for the fleet's personnel, medical services for servicemen and their families.

Back to the list




Back to news list