Finance Ministry proposes to limit currently planned spendings on preparations for the World Cup in 2018

Finance Ministry asks Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to limit at the legislative level federal currently planned spendings on preparations for the World Cup in 2018.

"The experience of previous major events in Sochi, the Universiade, indicates that during the implementation of major projects, there are questions related to the appreciation of certain events, the emergence of new proposals for the inclusion of additional facilities. So we thought today would be appropriate to take a final decision on the that the number of additional costs - 250 billion rubles, and it can not be changed ", - said Finance Minister Anton Siluanov at a cabinet meeting on Thursday.