Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko instructed to connect 640 socially significant facilities in the Lugansk People's Republic to communications by September. The meeting was also attended by the head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik.
More than 3.2 billion rubles will be allocated from the federal budget and extra-budgetary sources for the development of sports in new regions of Russia this year, according to the deputy prime minister's office. The Russian government also decided to restore the work of post offices in the new Russian regions.