Scandals: To dig 2 billion
As to Republic of Mordovia sawed the last pipes of the Sursky conduit the Sursky conduit started building in the mid-eighties to prevent deficiency of drinking water in Saransk. Against disorder of the USSR the object turned into unfinished construction. In the late nineties, most likely, not without "collateral" interest, the governor of that time Nikolay Merkushkin tried to reanimate it. All ended with that in 2021 the megaproject remains...