The Russian government has significantly slashed the 2025 budgets for the majority of its priority domestic technology initiatives, diverting financial resources to sustain unprecedented military expenditures amid widening fiscal deficits. A recent analysis by the Moscow-based Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting (CMASF) indicates that allocations for eight primary “technological leadership” programs were cut by nearly 38%. The revised federal budget provides 201.9 billion rubles ($2.6 billion) for these sectors, down from the initially planned 324.4 billion rubles ($4.2 billion).JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. The space technology sector experienced the most severe reduction, losing its entire scheduled 10 billion ruble ($129 million) budget. Initiatives focused on domestic machine tools and industrial robotics – grouped under the Means of Production and Automation national project – saw their funding drop by more than 75%, falling from a planned 52.2 billion rubles to 11.8 billion rubles ($152.2 million). Budgetary contractions heavily affected the Industrial and Transport Mobility program, which decreased to 102.2 billion rubles ($1.3 billion). Funding was similarly reduced across the New Materials and Chemistry, Health Preservation, Food Security, and New Nuclear and Energy Technologies programs. Conversely, the state’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) development program was the sole technological initiative to avoid cuts. It received 35.7 billion rubles ($460.5 million), an allocation slightly higher than the originally drafted 32.7 billion rubles.