OREANDA-NEWS. September 24, 2008. `Russian Socio-Economical Development Strategy up to 2020` is the document to be completed by the Government of the Russian Federation next week. This announcement was made by Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime-Minister during his meeting with the Spravedlivaya Rossia (Fair Russia) group.

In particular, the Prime-Minister reminded that a lot of attention in today`s budget is paid to GLONASS system evolution and enhancement of space and nuclear industries. "There is GLONASS system, and we are going to accelerate its evolution. We added 45 billion roubles to the funding of the space industry... this is for the sake of hi-tech advancement", said V. Putin.