Russian Roads, Schools, Agribusiness, and Forests to Receive Additional Funding Over the Next 3 Years

© Николай Журавлев / тг-канал

Yesterday, the Federation Council considered the federal budget law for 2026-2028 and made some amendments for the second reading. As previously reported, senators partially freed 15 regions from debt on budget loans, allocated additional funds for the development of road infrastructure and support for industrial enterprises.

Today it became known that the Federation Council intends to spend another 82.5 billion rubles on the development of regional automobile roads. The funds will primarily go to territories with limited budget capabilities.

An additional 33.3 billion rubles, senators decided to allocate for agriculture. This includes comprehensive development of rural areas, preferential lending to agricultural producers, and support for small agribusiness. Special attention will be given to participants of the SVO, helping them start their own agribusiness.

27.3 billion rubles will go to education, specifically for school capital repairs, social scholarships, and military training centers at universities.

Another 20.5 billion rubles, senators want to spend on providing patients with expensive medicines, social gasification, and creating prosthetics and comprehensive rehabilitation centers for SVO participants.

An additional 5 billion rubles will be allocated for forestry. The funds will be used to strengthen measures for preventing and extinguishing forest fires, and for forest inventory.

And another 2 billion rubles will go to support R&D, specifically for the development of specialized equipment.

«In working on the document, we relied on the instructions of President Vladimir Putin, as well as on appeals from the regions and proposals from the expert community, voiced at parliamentary hearings on the budget project, which took place in the Federation Council at the beginning of October... Work on the budget continues. We will keep all important areas under control...», — commented Nikolai Zhuravlev, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.