On March 10, 2012, the then acting president of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, proposed relocating the Presidential Administration and government apparatus, the State Duma and the Federation Council, the Accounts Chamber and the judiciary, as well as the Prosecutor General, the Investigative Committee and various ministries outside the MKAD.
The main reason for this decision was the administrative buildings in the historical center of Moscow. The largest concentration of various authorities is located on Okhotny Ryad and Bolshaya Dmitrovka, two hundred meters from the Kremlin. Large state buildings, including the State Duma, consisting of 450 deputies, not counting their assistants and the secretariat, their personal and official cars - all this turned Moscow into an official city.
And the current capital can be safely defined: a city for business. Every day, millions of people every morning in their cars head to the center for work. Giant traffic jams from morning to evening became everyday reality and at the same time a nightmare for this city. Metro can no longer cope with this problem.
Based on all of the above events, many residents of the metropolis were seriously worried that Moscow would soon become one big collapse. As a result, a proposal arose to expand the capital. The first at the state level, Dmitry Medvedev spoke about this. He proposed adding a few hundred hectares of the Moscow Region to Greater Moscow. July 1, Moscow was joined by the territory of the Moscow region, which received the unofficial name of "New Moscow". The gain is located mainly in the south and southwest.
The Relocation Commission, led by Chairman Igor Shuvalov in July 2012, proposed the establishment of a government center in Kommunark, located near the Moscow Ring Road. Deputies and senators agreed to move there, however, with the proviso that other authorities would also move to New Moscow with them. But parliamentarians refused to move.
Vladimir Putin, at a private meeting in the Kremlin on August 14, 2012, postponed the adoption of this decision until March 2013, instructing specialists to assess the financial side of the issue.
