The President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin approved the composition of the Military-industrial Commission, the relevant decree was posted on the official portal of legal information on Thursday.

on Wednesday, Putin said that will guide the work of the Commission, Deputy Prime Minister for military industry Dmitry Rogozin will be his Deputy, and the Deputy defense Minister Yuri Borisov - Secretary of the Commission. Until now the Commission was the authority of the Federal government, Rogozin was her boss, and Borisov - his first Deputy. The Commission was engaged in the development of the defense-industrial complex and the formation of the state defense order.

According to the signed decree, the Chairman of the Commission was Putin himself, his Deputy Dmitry Rogozin, the Executive Secretary of the Commission Borisov. The Commission has also included key power (head of the defense Ministry, General staff, Ministry of interior, the Federal security service, foreign intelligence Service, Roscosmos and the 1st Deputy Secretary of the security Council and economic officials (the head of the Ministry of economic development, Ministry of industry and trade, Ministry of Finance and presidential Advisor Andrei Belousov), the head of state corporations, the military assistance and the Corporation and the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

the composition of colleagues included about 50 people.

in addition, the Commission created the Collegium headed Rogozin, which will be continuously acting body for the " current issues " with the government. The Board will, for example, the development of science and technology in the interests of the Russian defense export control of military goods and the implementation of the decisions of the military-industrial complex.

in 2008 in Russia was launched large-scale military reform, the key point of which was the rearmament program. In 2010 it was decided to re-allocate Up to 2020 20 trillion rubles in order to increase the share of new equipment Up to 70%. Later in 2014, the US and the EU have imposed penalties on a number of the largest Russian military plants and threatened the purchase of a helicopter carrier in France and defense-industrial cooperation with Ukraine, Russia took the path of import substitution in the defense sector.

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