Irina Okladnikova told the deputies that the Skolkovo
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 10:51 am
No. 688702-8 "On Amendments to the Federal Law "On the Skolkovo Innovation Center" (in terms of transferring the functions of the Skolkovo Foundation to state authorities of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation)" was presented by the official representative of the Russian government, First Deputy Minister of Finance Irina Okladnikova, at a plenary session of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on October 15. The bill was adopted in the first reading.
Foundation's management argentina whatsapp number databa se company had municipal "auxiliary" functions, which included urban planning, issuing permits for construction and commissioning, organizing transport services, building infrastructure and roads, private healthcare, landscaping, and functions in the housing and utilities sector. Now that the project for the creation, development, and support of the Skolkovo Center for the Development and Commercialization of New Technologies has been completed, these functions should return to the government of the capital, of which Skolkovo became a part on July 1, 2012, after the borders of Moscow and the Moscow Region were changed.
"Moscow is currently already actively involved in the creation and operation of the center. Thus, with the financial and organizational support of the city of Moscow, international and medical cluster facilities have been built, city passenger transport routes have been launched, and the created citywide infrastructure facilities are being operated. Moreover, this operation is being carried out at the expense of grants that Moscow provides to the management company from the city budget. Due to the fact that the main functions for creating the center's infrastructure have been implemented, the bill proposes to return a number of municipal functions that were previously transferred to the management company to the city of Moscow and to transfer to the city of Moscow the functions of the management company for organizing, creating and operating additional citywide infrastructure of the center and ensuring life on the territory of the center," said Irina Okladnikova.
She noted that the functions will be financed from the Moscow budget. Later, answering questions from State Duma deputy from the United Russia faction Andrei Alshevskikh, Irina Okladnikova said that these functions are currently carried out by the fund's management company using grants from the Moscow government. In 2024, the grants amounted to 430 million rubles.
State Duma deputy from the "A Just Russia" faction Andrei Kuznetsov noted that the state has invested large amounts of money in the Skolkovo Foundation and asked what the proposed changes were related to.
"Moscow is currently giving a grant, and the management company of the Skolkovo Foundation must retain specialists who understand housing and utilities, road cleaning, and the maintenance of some infrastructure," Irina Okladnikova responded. "This is not the purpose of the foundation's activities. It was created to engage in scientific activities, commercialization, attract residents, grow them, and produce products that Russia needs. We are not talking about transferring the main functions, we are talking only about auxiliary functions. We are essentially optimizing the foundation's activities."
Anatoly Vyborny, a deputy from the United Russia faction, asked two questions. First, he inquired whether Moscow authorities or organizations established by the Moscow government would be able to delegate the functions assigned to them by this draft federal law to third parties, and second, how the control and oversight activities would be organized.
Foundation's management argentina whatsapp number databa se company had municipal "auxiliary" functions, which included urban planning, issuing permits for construction and commissioning, organizing transport services, building infrastructure and roads, private healthcare, landscaping, and functions in the housing and utilities sector. Now that the project for the creation, development, and support of the Skolkovo Center for the Development and Commercialization of New Technologies has been completed, these functions should return to the government of the capital, of which Skolkovo became a part on July 1, 2012, after the borders of Moscow and the Moscow Region were changed.
"Moscow is currently already actively involved in the creation and operation of the center. Thus, with the financial and organizational support of the city of Moscow, international and medical cluster facilities have been built, city passenger transport routes have been launched, and the created citywide infrastructure facilities are being operated. Moreover, this operation is being carried out at the expense of grants that Moscow provides to the management company from the city budget. Due to the fact that the main functions for creating the center's infrastructure have been implemented, the bill proposes to return a number of municipal functions that were previously transferred to the management company to the city of Moscow and to transfer to the city of Moscow the functions of the management company for organizing, creating and operating additional citywide infrastructure of the center and ensuring life on the territory of the center," said Irina Okladnikova.
She noted that the functions will be financed from the Moscow budget. Later, answering questions from State Duma deputy from the United Russia faction Andrei Alshevskikh, Irina Okladnikova said that these functions are currently carried out by the fund's management company using grants from the Moscow government. In 2024, the grants amounted to 430 million rubles.
State Duma deputy from the "A Just Russia" faction Andrei Kuznetsov noted that the state has invested large amounts of money in the Skolkovo Foundation and asked what the proposed changes were related to.
"Moscow is currently giving a grant, and the management company of the Skolkovo Foundation must retain specialists who understand housing and utilities, road cleaning, and the maintenance of some infrastructure," Irina Okladnikova responded. "This is not the purpose of the foundation's activities. It was created to engage in scientific activities, commercialization, attract residents, grow them, and produce products that Russia needs. We are not talking about transferring the main functions, we are talking only about auxiliary functions. We are essentially optimizing the foundation's activities."
Anatoly Vyborny, a deputy from the United Russia faction, asked two questions. First, he inquired whether Moscow authorities or organizations established by the Moscow government would be able to delegate the functions assigned to them by this draft federal law to third parties, and second, how the control and oversight activities would be organized.