The main topics of the tests include extra-budgetary fund-raising, payroll management, financial and operational planning, administration of the development of financial and operating activities, and financial provision for project activities.
For the third consecutive year, the Karelian Research Center RAS has successfully passed the testing and, based on the results, was for the first time invited to the Third All-Russian Forum of Finance and Accounting Directors of organizations subordinated to the Ministry. This year, KarRC RAS was represented by Lyubov Shvetsova, Assistant to the CEO.
Lyubov Shvetsova, Assistant to KarRC RAS CEO
The forum took place at the Financial University under the RF Government in Moscow on December 5. Its main objective was to discuss current issues of financing the scientific and educational sphere in the context of achieving Russia's national development goals. The meeting was attended by over 450 representatives of scientific organizations and universities from across the country. The forum participants were addressed by representatives of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, heads of ministries and departments, including Andrey Omelchuk, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation; Pavel Kadochnikov, Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation; Dmitry Platygyn, Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation; and others.
The forum discussed the most important issues of providing, primarily financially, for the activities of universities and scientific organizations, as well as interaction with regulatory bodies. In their talks, the heads of ministries and departments noted the rise in funding for science and education, with funds being directed both to day-to-day operations and to strategic projects.
-- The KarRC RAS also illustrates this trend – in 2025, additional federal funds were allocated to augment the overall funding volume, finance new research topics, for various targeted subsidies (e.g. to cover the increased number of doctoral students), to increase funding of the research fleet unit, as well as for inflation-related salary adjustments. In turn, this requires tight control over the spending of budgetary funds and the achievement of real results, – said Lyubov Shvetsova in follow-up to the forum.
There are currently 1 392 organizations (legal entities and their separate subdivisions) operating under the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Federal budget funding allocated to the ministry and its subordinate institutions amounts to 908.7 billion rubles.
Photos: Lyubov Shvetsova
