Instructions to the Government of the Russian Federation concern, in part, a system for developing the public assignment for carrying out work in science and increase the efficiency in the use of federal budget funds allocated to scientific research.
The instructions issued to the Government jointly with the Russian Academy of Sciences concern the mechanism for formulating and adjusting the priorities in fundamental scientific research and the Russian Academy of Sciences’ expert scientific support for the Government’s work as regards the development of major mid-term research and development and socioeconomic programmes and projects.
The Ministry of Education and Science has been instructed to work with the Russian Academy of Sciences to develop suggestions on measures of state support for Russian scientific journals.