The 7th Winter Asian Games due in 2011 in Almaty require $726 ml from the republican budgets for 2008 and 2009, reported Interfax-Kazakhstan Agency according to country's deputy minister of sport and tourism Kairat Aitekenov.
"We offered to earmark $218 ml from the local budget and $726 from the republican budget to be divided between three years: beginning with construction and refit of sport facilities in 2008 until their start-up in 2010," he said last Tuesday in Astana at the session chaired by Vice-Premier Karim Masimov that addressed preparations for the Asian Games.
