The president has held an extended meeting of Security Council dedicated to the problems of Russian aircraft industry development. One of the reasons for this discussion was president’s own experience, which has managed to try the advantages of new Russian aircraft. "Even our new aircraft, produced by Russian enterprises, have certain problems, I know it from my own experience", - said Medvedev.

 

The criticism related to new Tu-214, which has transported president several times. And during president’s flight problems with landing gear unit have arisen.

 

There is a standstill in the area of civil aircraft. Only 7 civil aircraft have been manufactured in 2010. "It is a very sad number", - Medvedev noted. The situation on the ground is even worth – the existing aviation infrastructure does not meet the modern requirements and needs reconstruction.

 

- It is planned to allocate more than $172,98 billion (5 trillion rubles)  from the federal budget during the period until 2020 in order to improve the situation, - the president stated. – In fact, it is ten times greater than in the previous decade.

 

The main financing will be carried out in the network of State program in the area of arms and six federal target programs. At that, every ruble must be used with maximum efficiency, the president underlined.

 

The main objective is connected with modernization of civil airports. The budget will allocate $16,26 billion (470 billion rubles) for these purposes in the midterm. "The new objects will be built and the existing ones will be reconstructed this year on 38 aviation facilities", - the president instructed. Among these are: airports of Moscow, Sochi, Vladivostok, Kazan and Kurils. More than 60 additional objects of ground aviation infrastructure will be modernized by 2015.

 

Following the results of Security Council’s meeting, the decision to issue a document called “The basics of state policy in the area of aircraft industry” has been taken. The document will hold until 2020.