Russia has sharply cut funding for several of President Vladimir Putin's flagship technology development projects as mounting budget pressures and record military spending force the government to redirect resources away from civilian priorities.
Eight of the Kremlin's key "technological leadership" projects received just 201.9 billion rubles ($2.60 billion) in 2025, down 37.8% from the 324.4 billion rubles ($4.18 billion) allocated under the federal budget law, according to calculations by the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting (CMASF), a Moscow-based think tank.
The deepest cut hit the space technology project, which received none of its planned 10 billion rubles ($129 million) in funding.
Spending on the Means of Production and Automation national project, aimed at expanding domestic production of machine tools and industrial robots, was reduced by more than fourfold to 11.8 billion rubles ($152.2 million) from the planned 52.2 billion rubles ($673.4 million).
Funding for the New Materials and Chemistry project was cut to 5.7 billion rubles ($73.5 million) from 9.4 billion rubles ($121.3 million), while spending on the Industrial and Transport Mobility project fell to 102.2 billion rubles ($1.32 billion) from 167.2 billion rubles ($2.16 billion).
