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(8 years ago)Russian President Vladimir Putin has opened the nearly 20km-long bridge that will enable the most common link between the southern part of Russia and the Crimean Peninsula. The total project has cost $3.69 billion and will become Europe's longest bridge, crossing the Lisbon Bridge, Portugal, Vasco [...]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has opened the nearly 20km-long bridge that will enable the most common link between the southern part of Russia and the Crimean Peninsula.
The total project has cost $3.69 billion and will become the longest bridge in Europe, crossing the Lisbon Bridge, Portugal, Vasco da Gama, which so far was longer.
The completion of the project was expected in late 2018, but it was completed six months earlier, and a communique from the Kremlin ʹ will take place on May 16th.
Ukraine has been critical of this project, saying that bridge construction has damaged the environment.
The crime was annexed by Ukraine by the separatist pro-Russian armed forces following the 2014 revolution in Ukraine.
The peninsula's investigation was condemned by the West as an illegal land robbery.
The European Union and the US have sanctioned participants in the realisation of this bridge, especially businessman Arkdy Rottenber, who won the construction contract, who a close friend with Putin.
