“I ask you to consider the desirability of introducing a 50% discount from the established rates for passing vehicles of citizens along federal toll roads during the New Year holidays,” the appeal says.

The people’s choice confirmed his idea by the fact that during the two-week New Year’s holiday, Russians actively travel around the country in private transport, RT reports.

However, we remember that at the beginning of the summer, Konstantin Makiyev, vice chairman of the board of directors for operator activities and development of user services of Avtodor, officially refused to reduce the tariff on the M4 during the summer holidays.

“All funds are earmarked for the return of extra-budgetary financing raised by the state-owned company’s road network: for maintenance and repair, including capital,” he said at the time in response to the proposal of another Duma deputy, Viktor Vodolatsky, to the M4 Don free for a summer holiday period.

With that incident in mind, there is virtually no doubt that the Minister of Transport will answer Deputy Sukharev’s request in roughly the same terms as Makijev answered Vodolatsky.

“I ask you to consider the desirability of introducing a 50% discount from the established rates for passing vehicles of citizens along federal toll roads during the New Year holidays,” the appeal says.

The people’s choice confirmed his idea by the fact that during the two-week New Year’s holiday, Russians actively travel around the country in private transport, RT reports.

However, we remember that at the beginning of the summer, Konstantin Makiyev, vice chairman of the board of directors for operator activities and development of user services of Avtodor, officially refused to reduce the tariff on the M4 during the summer holidays.

“All funds are earmarked for the return of extra-budgetary financing raised by the state-owned company’s road network: for maintenance and repair, including capital,” he said at the time in response to the proposal of another Duma deputy, Viktor Vodolatsky, to the M4 Don free for a summer holiday period.

With that incident in mind, there is virtually no doubt that the Minister of Transport will answer Deputy Sukharev’s request in roughly the same terms as Makijev answered Vodolatsky.