"The lack of justification for the continued use of the parallel

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At a visiting meeting in Tomsk, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev stated that Russian companies continue to focus on purchasing ready-made foreign products, but the continued use of parallel imports must be justified.

import mechanism, which has largely fulfilled its role in stabilizing the situation on the goods market, does not contribute to an increase in innovation activity in the real sector of the economy," said Mr. Patrushev.

"Investment and innovation netherlands whatsapp number database activity of companies, especially in the markets of science-intensive and technological products, has grown insignificantly. An economically sound balance between domestic consumption, export and import of industrial products, especially those critically necessary for achieving technological sovereignty (including at the regional level), has still not been developed," he said.

Nikolay Patrushev noted that due to insufficient funding, scientists are turning to foreign investment, which, according to him, is fraught with the risk of leakage of scientific and technical information abroad. According to him, over the past 20 years, the number of scientific employees in the Russian Federation has decreased by approximately 25%.

"A serious obstacle to achieving technological independence is the shortage of qualified scientific, engineering and working personnel. The total number of personnel engaged in research and development in Russia has decreased by a quarter over the past 20 years," Mr. Patrushev said at a meeting in Tomsk (quoted by TASS).

Nikolay Patrushev claims that the problems with funding science in Russia are primarily related to insufficient control over research and development work by budget managers and development institutes. Speaking about the situation in Siberia, he stated that the region "still faces problems with the introduction of intellectual property obtained using budget funds into economic circulation."

According to the Higher School of Economics, the number of scientists reached a historic low of 340,000 by the end of 2021. The number of scientific personnel in Russia began to decline in 2014. Over the past seven years, the number of scientific workers has decreased by 10.5%, or 76,000 people. After the start of Russia's military operation in Ukraine, 200 people left Russia with the help of the Scholars at Risk organization alone, and another 62 scientists left thanks to the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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