Vladimir Putin: income from Rosneftegaz for science is allocated more than 12 billion rubles in the year – merchant

the Practice of extrabudgetary financing of science in Russia is already applied, said today the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. “In fact, this practice is already applied. We are in the last year, this year and in 2017, 2018 adopted a decision to Finance, are already doing this, in addition to the budget from income of “Rosneftegaz”. Last year it was 14 billion, this year 12, next year — about 11 billion”,— quotes its words “RIA Novosti”.

Science must help in the solution of such problems as the challenges in the field of demography, said the President. “If the new technological way to capture new industry, it must inevitably lead to release of a large number of people with traditional jobs, then the question arises, what and how to do it as a time to retrain, where to direct the released labor resources. There are other challenges of human nature”,— said Mr. Putin.

Earlier today Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Council for science and education in the Kremlin urged not to skimp on research because it may lead to the backwardness of the country in the future. In addition, the President stated that it was necessary to stop the practice of “smearing a thin layer” of funding among researchers. Vladimir Putin urged to send funds effective teams. “The money should be allocated for effective teams based on competition and selection process so that we were counting on receiving the final result,”— said the President.

we will Remind, in September hosted a large-scale action “Week of protest” Union of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The scientists stated “the sharp deterioration of the situation” and warned of mass redundancies in case of reduction of budgetary expenditures on science in 2017. The main requirement is to stop the spending cuts, supported by scientists from Vladivostok, Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan. In the Federal Agency of scientific organizations said that as “experiencing budget cuts” and only distribute the funds allocated by the government.

read More about the protest scholars read in the material “Kommersant” “Scientists refute the laws of Finance.”