According to a leaked copy of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s next five-year budget plan, the government intends to spend 25 trillion rubles ($403.8 billion) on 13 “national projects.” The big-ticket items repeat many of the priorities of Medvedev’s own presidency and build on development goals laid out in President Putin’s latest executive orders.
The biggest projects on the list are new roads (8.4 trillion rubles), demography (3.6 trillion rubles), and infrastructure (1.8 trillion rubles). The government also plans to devote significant resources to the fight against cancer and “the digital economy,” providing more broadband Internet connections to public sector facilities.
