MOSCOW, May 2 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's economics minister said Tuesday that financing for all federal programs would be increased by a total of 100 billion rubles ($3.67 billion) in 2007 compared with this year.
"[Financing] for the whole range of federal programs has almost been doubled," German Gref said, adding that a total of 472 billion rubles ($17.3 billion) would be allocated for the programs.
