Medvedev arrives in Crimea on his second visit in two months
25 May 2014, 18:26 -- Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has arrived for a two-day working trip to Crimea on Sunday, according to ITAR-TASS. This trip is Medvedev's second one after Crimea's accession to Russia in March. On March 31, he held an offsite meeting of the Russian government on the peninsula.
On Sunday, the head of the Russian Cabinet will visit the Crimean department of the Russian Federal Migration Service, which has a center for issuing Russian passports.
Later in the day, Medvedev will meet with people at the party's headquarters in Sevastopol.
On Monday, May 26, he will visit the Artek international children's center and will chair a government meeting dedicated to issues of organizing children's vacationing.
A large delegation accompanies the prime minister, who is the leader of Russia's ruling United Russia party, on his current trip, including deputies Igor Shuvalov, Dmitry Kozak, Arkady Dvorkovich, Olga Golodets, Dmitry Rogozin, Sergei Prikhodko, Yuri Trutnev and Alexander Khloponin; as well as ministers Dmitry Livanov, Vladimir Puchkov, Veronika Skvortsova, Maxim Topilin, Oleg Savelyev; Oleg Belaventsev, the Russian president's envoy to the Crimean Federal District, and Crimea's acting Prime Minister Sergey Aksyonov.
At present, the Russian Federal Migration Service is issuing passports to persons who permanently reside in the territories of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol. Temporary passport centers have been set up in the Crimean capital of Simferopol, the federal city of Sevastopol and Kerch. For example, the Sevastopol passport center employs almost 300 people who work in two shifts and prepare up to 7,000 passports daily. 256,883 passports had been ready by May 19.
The Artek international children's camp, which opened on June 16, 1925, is planning to receive at least 4,000 children this summer. However, the camp needs repairs and renovation to be able to receive more guests.
Crimea has a total of 57 children's recreation camps and 10 health resort centers. There are nine children's camps and two health resort centers in Sevastopol. All of them will be inspected by the end of May to see whether these recreation facilities meet sanitary requirements.
Russia, with Crimea excluded, has 52,000 camps and health resort centers that will receive 8.5 million children this year, of which 2.8 million are children from problem families. More than $131.7 million have already been allocated from regions and municipal budgets to organize children's vacations. More than 4.3 billion rubles $125.9 million will come from the federal budget. The average cost of rest in countryside recreation camps is about $500.
More than 30,000 children from other parts of Russia will spend their summer vacations in Crimea this year.
PM Medvedev to go on two-day visit to Crimea
'On May 25, the prime minister will visit the Russian Federal Migration Service department for the city of Sevastopol to see how passports are being issued to the citizens of Russia,' the Russian government's official website reports.
Medvedev, who is the leader of the United Russia party, will receive local people at the party's public reception room the same day, TASS reports.
On Monday, May 26, the Russian prime minister will chair a meeting with Crimean vice-premiers to discuss how to organize recreation for children. Later on, he will visit the Artek international children's center.
This is going to be Medvedev's second trip to Crimea since it reunited with Russia on March 18. On March 31, he held an offsite meeting of the Russian government on the peninsula.
At present, the Russian Federal Migration Service is issuing passports to persons who permanently reside in the territories of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol. Temporary passport centers have been set up in the Crimean capital of Simferopol, the federal city of Sevastopol and Kerch. For example, the Sevastopol passport center employs almost 300 people who work in two shifts and prepare up to 7,000 passports daily. A total of 256,883 passports had been ready by May 19.
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