Russia will spend some 2.5 billion roubles to support Abkhazia's budget in 2010, and more than 15 billion dollars to develop a military base there and the republic's border, Itar-Tass quoted Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as saying ahead of his visit to Abkhazia. "This year, we've allocated some 2.5 billion roubles to support Abkhazia's budget, and the figure will be approximately the same next year," Putin said. "But in 2010, we'll be allocating much money - around 15 billion roubles - to resolve security issues, i.e. for developing our military base and Abkhazia's state border. "It is the strengthening of the border and developing a modern border, in order to communicate with Georgia and Russia," he underlined. In all, some 15 to 16 billion roubles will be allocated on building the modern infrastructure, and the development of the border, border troops and the military base," according to Putin.
