Rostekhnologii CEO Sergei Chemezov, right, counts on PM Viktor Zubkov to give him the access to budget funds.
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The Technology of Trillion Rubles
Rostekhnologii CEO Sergei Chemezov wants from the government the access to multibillion budget funding in addition to big industrial assets. In the draft ruling that Rostekhnologii has elaborated for the cabinet, this state corporation seeks the authority of the state customer for the government defense order coupled with the authority of the budget money’s recipient and manager. If Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov endorses the document, Rostekhnologii will turn into the state customer for six federal budget programs worth over 1 trillion rubles starting from January 1, 2009.
A week ago, Sergei Chemezov submitted to the government the draft ruling on the state contribution to government’s corporation Rostekhnologii, which notably extends the authority of the latter in part of the access to budget funds. To be more precise, the document suggests authorizing Rostekhnologii to act as the recipient and manager of budget money as well as the state customer for the government defense order.
What’s more, the document spells out the authority of the corporation as the state customer for six federal budget programs worth more than 1 trillion rubles, including nearly 730 billion rubles appropriated from the federal budget, starting from January 1, 2009.
So far, distributing the budget money has been in capacity of the ministries, off-budget funds, bodies of local self-government and a few budget institutions dealing with science and culture. Russia’s Industry and Energy Ministry is currently the customer and coordinator for the better part of federal target programs eyed by Rostekhnologii. “It isn’t clear how we will be dividing this slice with Rostekhnologii,” speculated a source with the ministry. “In addition to the enterprises that will merge into Rostekhnologii, the industry has a number of independent players, Almaz-Antei consortium, for instance.”
People in Industry and Energy Ministry and Federal Industry Agency (Rosprom) don’t comment on this initiative of Rostekhnologii for the record.
The situation with government defense order is similar. The ministry’s attitude to the project is categorically negative, a source with Defense Ministry said. “Rostekhnologii has been created to optimize the work of defense industry. But if another state customer emerges in addition to Industry and Energy Ministry and Defense Ministry, it will only hinder the procedure of transferring the budget funds to enterprises-executors.”
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All the Article in Russian as of Apr. 24, 2008
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