MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia approved an initial financial aid package for Crimea on Friday to help the local economy as it consolidates control over the region it annexed from neighbouring Ukraine this month.
Finance minister Anton Siluanov said on Wednesday that Russia would spend up to 243 billion roubles (£4.09 billion) in Crimea this year, to be financed from the budget reserve.
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