Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Media: the budget of the FCP may be reduced by 300 billion rubles – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, November 17 – RIA Novosti. The budget of the Federal Space Program (FCP) in the years 2016-2025 to be approved on November 24 a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russian Space Agency Igor Komarov and Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov , it may be reduced by 300 billion rubles, the newspaper “Izvestia”, citing a senior interlocutor in Roskosmos.

“The meeting is planned because on November 12 in Sochi at a meeting on the project Federal Space Program to come to a consensus could not be “, – said the source edition.

According to the official newspaper, the purpose of the meeting was to agree on 12 November budget PCF, but the odds are so significant that the decision was taken.

“Finance Minister insists on adopting the budget of the PCF’s 2016-2025 in the amount of not more than 1.4 trillion rubles. Roscosmos defends the need for the budget of the PCF at 1.7 trillion. Otherwise it will be a substantial reduction programs, primarily from the sphere manned space flight “, – quotes the edition of the interlocutor.

It was reported earlier that the original statement of the PCF volume was about 2 trillion rubles. In early November, Komarov said that funding the space industry in 2016 as part of a new plan to reduce the PCF of about 17 billion rubles from the originally stated amount. Komarov said that Roskosmos has prepared three draft PCF, which provide for a reduction of the budget of the program by 15% and 25% of the amount claimed.

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