Economic justification on construction of the Kyzyl-Minusinsk (Kuragino) railway required in respect with the development of the Elegest coal field and other parts of the mineral complex has been approved May, 17 at the Expert Council, Russian Ministry of Trasport headed by Mikhail Levitin, minister. It is a large step forward in making an ambitious business plan realizable, in spite of the fact that the project itself has never been approved of or even discussed on the official local level. Tuvan deputies get news in this regards from the federal news agencies.