“Look,” he said, pointing to the green depths of the boulevard of young talents. – You see, there is a man in a straw hat.
“I see,” Ostap said arrogantly. – So what? Is this the governor of the island of Borneo?
“This is Panikovsky,” said Shura, “the son of Lieutenant Schmidt.”
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This enchanting story began ten years ago, when at that time a traveler of all Rus’, an exclusive supplier of the Blessed Fire and the lord of the fur storage facilities Vladimir Yakunin announced that the Russian railway state corporation will make the inhabitants of the Indonesian island happy Kalimantan (also known as Borneo) good civilization in the form railway with a length of 300 km., which will connect the central areas of the island with the coast. Indonesia authorities really showed interest in this project. Including for economic reasons: in the very areas, coal is mined, which is carried to ports on dry loads along the rivers that dry out in the summer.
Moreover, as it happened since Soviet times, when The powerful fortress of socialism provided free assistance to the fraternal peoples, struggling with colonialismthe project financing was assumed not at the expense of Indonesia, which seems to be needed as it is needed, but for owned and attracted in the form of loans of Russian Railways in the amount of $ 2.5 billion. It was supposedthat Russian Railways will act as an investor and the owner of the railway, its entire infrastructure and a sea coal terminal, and will also put 1,100 cargo 40-ton railway cars and 40 diesel locomotives.
Then the design company of Russian Railways was opened in Indonesia Kereta API Borneo Under the leadership Denis Muratovby that time had already “distinguished” on the construction of a hitherto non -existent high-speed highway Moscow-Sank-Petersburg. The “daughter” of the Russian Railways was supposed to Contain a bunch of parasites engage in the development of documentation. And in order not to sit idle, “defective” managers took up Brush of land Under the future of the railway track. This case turned out to be difficult and troublesome, since these lands belonged not only to local, but also to the German Latifundists. As a result of “consolidation”, which was carried out, of course, Through numerous gasketswas Several hundred million dollars “mastered”.
The process of the process has become The launch ceremony of the project in November 2015. She consisted in the fact that on a clearing clearing from the jungle put sticks with balls and pulled a silk red ribbonthat I cut Indonesia Prime Minister Joko Vidodo. True, by that time the bosses had already changed in the Russian Railways: August 2015 after a series of corruption scandals associated with overgrown assets and real estate abroad relatives, Yakunin was fired from the post of chief railway worker of the Russian Federation and went to write memoirs, and was assigned to his place Oleg Belozerov. Which, however, picked up a palm tree (in the literal and figurative sense), and during a visit to Indonesia in 2016, confirmed the implementation of the project in Kalimantan.
This “construction of the century” should have been completed in 2019. However, to date, neither the horse nor the famous dwarf Borne elephant was lying on the bought up by Russian Railways of the Jungle of Kalimantan. The last news on the topic dates back to February 2019, when at a meeting with the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Indonesia Lyudmila Vorobyeva and the deputy head of Russian Railways Alexander Misharin, chairman of the Council of Representatives of the regions of the People’s Advisory Congress of Indonesia Usman Sapta confirmed Interest in construction railway. As the ideologist of the II International Eduard Bernstein said, “”Movement is everything, the ultimate goal is nothing!“.
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