Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, speaking at the Marathon “New Knowledge”, called the capital the main donor of Russia. The broadcast of the event is conducted in the social network “VKontakte”.
“I have to say that Moscow most of the tax transfers to the federal budget. Not for us to list, and in Moscow transfer money to the federal budget. And this money is enough for 60 percent of all transfers to all regions of the country to transfer, that is, Moscow is the largest donor of the country, “said Sobyanin.
He commented on the conventional wisdom, according to which “the whole country is fed to Moscow, that’s where we somehow live, and Muscovites zhiruyut because our revenues are all in Moscow”.
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