Rogozin: the Board of the military-industrial complex began to discuss defense spending in 2016
Board MIC began a preliminary discussion of the draft budget defense spending, defense industry and homeland security for 2016, said Vice-Premier of Russia Dmitry Rogozin.
"the Board of the MIC began a preliminary discussion of the project budget expenditures 2016 defense, the defense industry and homeland security ", - Rogozin wrote.
before the head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin said that he will lead the Military-industrial Commission. Until now, the Commission was a Department of the Federal government, then headed by its Deputy Prime Minister for military industries Dmitry Rogozin, his first Deputy was Deputy defense Minister Yuri Borisov. The Commission was engaged in the implementation of state policy for the development of the military-industrial complex and the formation of the state defense order.
in 2008, Russia launched large-scale military reform, a key point of which was the rearmament program. In 2010 it was decided to allocate on rearmament by 2020 20 trillion rubles to increase the share of new equipment up To 70%. After 2014 the US and EU has imposed punishment on a number of major Russian military factories and was under threat of the military-industrial cooperation with Ukraine, Russia has a policy of import substitution in the defense sector.