On March 10, 2012, the then current President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev proposed to relocate the Presidential Administration and the government apparatus, the State Duma and the Federation Council, the Accounts Chamber and the judiciary, as well as the Prosecutor General's Office, the Investigative Committee and various ministries outside the Moscow Ring Road.
The main reason for this decision was the congestion of administrative buildings in the historical center of Moscow. The largest concentration of various authorities is located on Okhotny Ryad and Bolshaya Dmitrovka, two hundred meters from the Kremlin. Large state buildings, including the State Duma, consisting of 450 deputies, not counting their assistants and the secretariat, their personal and official cars - all this turned Moscow into an official city.
And the current capital can be easily defined: a city for business. Every day, millions of people every morning in their cars head to the center to work. Gigantic traffic jams from morning to evening have become an everyday reality and at the same time a nightmare for this city. The metro can no longer cope with this problem.
Based on all of the above events, many residents of the metropolis were seriously worried that Moscow would soon become one big collapse. As a result, there was a proposal to expand the capital. Dmitry Medvedev was the first to talk about this at the state level. He suggested adding several hundred hectares of the Moscow region to the "Greater Moscow". On July 1, Moscow was joined by the territories of the Moscow region, which received the unofficial name "New Moscow". The increase is located mainly in the southern and southwestern directions.
The relocation commission, headed by its chairman Igor Shuvalov, proposed in July 2012 to place the government center in Kommunarka, located near the Moscow Ring Road. The deputies and senators agreed to move there, but with the proviso that other authorities would move with them to New Moscow. But the parliamentarians refused to move.
At a closed meeting in the Kremlin on August 14, 2012, Vladimir Putin postponed the adoption of this resolution until March 2013, instructing experts to assess the financial side of the issue.
