Grigory Yavlinsky: How much does the Crimean bridge cost?
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 25.12.2019
They built a bridge from Taman to Kerch. It turned out three times more expensive than same kind of bridges in the world. They built it on budget money, and in our state and in such cases part of this money will be stolen. Like was the case with the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
But in fact, the extremely high cost of the bridge across the Kerch Strait is only a small part of the price that our country pays for the adventure with the annexation of Crimea. It is not about dubious official figures or percentage of the share of the budget or the GDP. The price also includes other things:
– creation of an atmosphere of aggression and violence in the post-Soviet space;
– turning our country into a state with a negative reputation;
– humiliating economic sanctions against Russia;
– the criminal war in Donbass;
– total state lies;
– endless confrontation with Ukraine, our closest neighbor, and in creation of a belt of instability around Russia.
But sooner or later, under this President or another, you will have to return to solving the Crimea problem, and an expensive bridge will not help here (see “Peace and War. How to Achieve the First and Prevent the Latter”).
Posted: December 26th, 2019 under Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption.