The President instructed the Government of the Russian Federation to explore the possibility of increasing funding for the North Caucasus Federal District Development to 2025 state programme when drafting the federal budget for 2018 and the 2019–2020 budget plan.
Another instruction concerned devising a development strategy for Russia’s Caspian sea ports and railways and roads leading to them.
The President also instructed the Government to work together with interested organisations to review a project to revive tungsten-molybdenum ore extraction and processing at the Tyrnyauz field in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic and put forward proposals to this effect.