“The commission on the whole approved the proposals for the M12 tracing Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod - Kazan," RIA Novosti quotes the apparatus of First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov.
The organization chart of the project was also generally approved.
It is noted that the cost of the construction of the route is estimated at 730 billion rubles.
In November 2019, Yegor Muleyev, a researcher at the Higher School of Economics at the Institute of Transport Economics and Transport Policy, in an interview with URA.RU, assessed the possibility of extending the Moscow-Kazan route to Vladivostok.