MOSCOW, October 26 The Russian budget is shrinking individual items, but overall it is reliable and balanced, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“»Well, this is not sequestration. There is a certain shrinking of individual budget items, but overall our budget is large, reliable and balanced. It all depends on the readiness of industries, including space industry, to master some segments of their work,” Putin said at a meeting with young scientists and specialists in the space industry.
Before this, one of the young scientists spoke about “sequestering the space program,” in his words, “ reduces the pace of development» of the reusable carrier «Amur».