Vladimir Putin to visit the port of Sochi hit by recent storm

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is expected at December 25 at a meeting on the construction of Olympic object in Sochi, "Vesti" TV channel reports. The meeting will be attended by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, who oversees the Olympic construction, Transport Minister Igor Levitin, Minister of Regional Development Viktor Basargin, the head of Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev, the governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev and president of the corporation" Olimpstroy Teimuraz Bolloev.

According to another agency "Vedomosti" citing the spokesman for PM Dmitry Peskov, Mr. Putin will be visiting the site at the port near Mzymta river hit on December 14 night by the storm causing damages to unfinished port constructions and equipment. The amount required to eliminate the effects of the storm in the Bay of Imeretinsk, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak had said, would be about 0.5 billion rubles. The major task now, Mr. Kozak added, would be immediate elimination all the damages, adjustments to the project documentation, reinforcement of the breakwaters, protecting the port from waves.