Ministry of Finance is not going to cut funding for Skolkovo

According to the press-secretary of the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Andrey Matveev, previously accepted amount of government funding for the innovation center Skolkovo will not be reduced.

The planned funding for the creation of Skolkovo center remains unchanged, namely 85 B RUR from 2010 to 2015, Matveyev said.

Thus the rumors about plans to cut the amount of the budget allocated for Skolkovo project have been refuted.