[FPSPACE] Russian space budget

[Green, Jennifer L]

note: 4 billion *rubles*
of course the estimated cost of just the Progress's and Soyuz's in the
current ISS Assembly Sequence would be around 2.5 billion rubles....

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Govt to assign over 4 bln rbls for space industry in 2001 

Source: ITAR-TASS News Wire 
Publication date: 2000-09-01

MOSCOW, September 1 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian government plans to assign
4,070,893,000 rubles for space exploration and uses in 2001, says a draft
federal budget for next year. 

These include 733,506,000 ruble in state support to the space industry
(489,206,000 rubles for maintenance of the ground sites of the space
industry
and 244,300,000 rubles for buying space and military machinery),
3,337,387,000 rubles for research and development and 29,754,000 rubles in
administrative spending. 

Yet sources in the Russian Aerospace Agency has told Prime Tass that the
funds are not enough for adequate financing of the Russian space industry.
For
instance, Russia's spending solely on the construction of the international
space station has to exceed 3 billion rubles next year. 

Publication date: 2000-09-01

Jennifer L. Green
Boeing International Space Station
Vehicle Integrated Performance and Resources (VIPeR) Team
281-336-4684 (phone)
281-336-5070 (fax)