Budget-2016 and science

On December 15, 2015, President Putin signed the law on the federal budget for 2016. It does not bode well to science: with an increase in the total expenditures of the federal budget compared to 2015, 4.4% (680 billion rubles) expenses for civil research and development will amount to 306.3 billion rubles, which is 48.9 billion rubles. Less than last year. In percentage terms, the reduction in expenses is 13.8%. Thus, the reduction in financing of civil science will be even more serious than in 2015.

The main direction for which money is allocated for civil science in general and applied research in particular, in the accounting, "applied scientific research in the field of national economy" is called. The costs of it will be sharply reduced - from 208 billion rubles. Last year, up to 126.4 billion in the coming. The main expenses for this article are associated with the financing of the development program for civil aviation equipment - 36.8 billion rubles, the Federal Target Program for Research and Development - 17 billion rubles, applied research in the field of space activity - 13.6 billion rubles, electronic industries - 10.4 billion rubles, medicine and pharmaceuticals - 9.8 billion rubles, shipbuilding - 9.7 billion rubles. The energy industry complex - 7.8 billion rubles.

Minimously smaller funds for civilian applied research will go to other sections of the budget. Applied research in the field of healthcare is supposed to allocate 18.8 billion rubles, in the field of national issues - 15.1 billion rubles, in the field of education - 13.6 billion rubles.

Fundamental scientific research was more fortunate: their financing at the expense of the federal budget will be reduced from 114.9 billion rubles. Last year, up to 110.6 billion rubles. In the coming year. The main recipient of funds is predictable to the Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations (Fano) - it will receive 67.2 billion rubles. According to this article. In total, the fan will be allocated 85.3 billion rubles. Shard of the former RAS - the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Russian Academy of Sciences” - will receive 4.1 billion rubles.

Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov in 2016 is planned to allocate 2.5 billion rubles for fundamental research. (the total budget-11.4 billion rubles), St. Petersburg State University-750 million rubles. (The total budget - 8.5 billion rubles).

The Russian fund of fundamental research will receive 11 billion rubles in 2016. , Russian humanitarian scientific fund - 1.8 billion rubles. Of the large organizations, the main loser in the distribution of budgetary funds is the Russian Scientific Fund: in the draft budget for 2016, it was supposed to allocate 15.5 billion rubles to the fund, and in the final version of the budget - only 600 million rubles. However, the real funding of the fund will remain at the initially planned level - the Russian Scientific Fund has already received 14.9 billion rubles. From the State OJSC "Rosneftegaz". Whether a sharp change in financing plans at the expense of the federal budget for the possibility of the Fund will fully finance the funds announced after receiving funds from OJSC Rosneftegaz contests, it is not clear: the decision on their implementation was made before amendments to the budget during the second reading.

The most successful of the major recipients of the budget is the Kurchatov Institute: next year it is planned to allocate 14.8 billion rubles. (almost 40% more than in 2015). Of these, 1.3 billion rubles. will go to fundamental research, and 8.9 billion rubles. - On applied.

After several years of three -year planning for the first time - in connection with the uncertainty of the economic situation - the annual budget was signed, so the government plans for 2017-2018, if they exist, are not clear. Moreover, the ongoing drop in oil prices makes it very likely amending the law on the budget for 2016 in order to further reduce budget expenditures.