Leading Russian economist Sergey Glazyev reported on his Telegram channel today that the final package of “cooperation agreements” between the government and industry for the development of high-tech areas has now been signed. First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov, Deputy Prime Ministers Dmitry Chernyshenko, Alexander Novak and Denis Manturov were among the ministers taking part in the signing ceremony today, he reported.
Glazyev called these cooperation agreements “road maps” for high-tech development in the areas of “artificial intelligence,” “promising space systems and services,” “technologies of new materials and substances,” “development of hydrogen energy,” and “energy storage systems.” Belousov has responsibility for overall coordination of this work.
“The implementation of the measures of the `road maps’ will ensure the achievement of sustainable technological sovereignty of Russia, and, in certain areas of end-to-end technologies, the opportunity to take a leading position in the world,” Glazyev wrote (as machine-translated).
Also named as signing the agreements were Herman Gref, Chairman of the Management Board of Sberbank, Alexey Likhachev, Ceo of Rosatom State Corporation, Kirill Dmitriev, General Director of JSC RDIF Management Company, Yuri Borisov, General Director of Roscosmos State Corporation, Nikolai Pozhidaev, President of Sitronics JSC, Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, “and others.”
