24 Mar 2014 14:32

Medvedev speaks of various options of electrical power supply to Crimea

MOSCOW. March 24 (Interfax) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev believes that electrical power can be supplied to Crimea by joining the peninsula to the Unified Energy System of Russia through the Kerch Strait and also by building generating facilities in Crimea.

"As to electrical power, there are options of joining Crimea to the Unified Energy System of Russia through the Kerch Strait and building generating facilities on the peninsula," Medvedev said at a meeting on the socio-economic development of Crimea and Sevastopol.