Kremlin: the government will deal with abandoned assets in the annexed territories

In the DPR and LPR annexed to Russia, as well as the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, there are “abandoned assets” that “cannot be left inactive,” said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov. He assures that the owners of these assets can return and claim their rights.

Newspaper Vedomosti The day before, she announced that the government had already created a commission that deals with the transfer of “non-functioning and abandoned enterprises” under external management in four new regions. Mr. Peskov said during a press call that he was not aware of the creation of such a commission.

“I don’t know if this will be a commission, but the fact that the government will have to deal with this issue is unequivocal. There are also abandoned assets, and, of course, they cannot be left idle. We have to launch them, activate them. Accordingly, someone should take them on their balance sheet,” Dmitry Peskov told Kommersant FM.

According to him, “this is completely normal, because this is the territory of the Russian Federation.” “Assets have owners, and they all have the right under Russian law to claim their rights to this or that asset, but already on the basis that this is the territory of the Russian Federation and the regions of the Russian Federation and the regions of the Russian Federation,” the Kremlin representative added.

According to Vedomosti, the government commission was headed by Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, and Irek Fayzullin, head of the Ministry of Construction, became his deputy in this body. The commission also includes the Ministry of Industry and Trade. First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption Andrey Lugovoy said that they are discussing the transfer to external management of the iron ore plant in Berdyansk, which was provided by the Ilyich Plant and Azovstal.

30 September Vladimir Putin signed agreements on the inclusion of the DPR and LPR, as well as the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions into Russia. October 5 President of the Russian Federation appointed interim heads. Until January 1, 2026, four regions will have a transitional period. At the initiative of the Ministry of Economy, new regions may exempt from income tax for ten years.

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Laura Keffer