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On 21 January 2026 the Government of the Russian Federation, via Order No. 50-р signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, allocated an additional RUB 26.5 billion (approx. USD 290 million) from the federal budget to continue the 2026 preferential agricultural lending programme administered with the Ministry of Agriculture. The funds subsidise short-term loans for seasonal fieldwork inputs (fuel, seed, mineral fertiliser) and maintain the concessional interest rate on loans to dairy-cattle producers. With this allocation, total 2026 federal subsidisation of the preferential agricultural credit programme reaches RUB 150.1 billion.

On 27 December 2025 the Government of the Russian Federation, via an order signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, allocated an additional RUB 5 billion (approx. USD 63.9 million) from the government's reserve fund to subsidise preferential interest rates on investment and short-term loans to agricultural producers and processors of crop products. The order amends the government's August 2025 preferential-lending distribution and brings total federal subsidisation of the 2025 preferential agricultural credit programme to RUB 41.7 billion. The measure preserves the subsidised rate on previously issued loans rather than creating new credit lines, freeing working capital for producers to expand output.

On 25 December 2025 the Government of the Russian Federation, via an order (Order No. 3964-r) signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, allocated more than RUB 1.8 billion (approx. USD 22.9 million) from the government's reserve fund to recapitalise the Industry Development Fund (Fond razvitiya promyshlennosti, FRP). The FRP provides concessional loans (3-5% annual rates, up to 7-year terms) to Russian industrial enterprises for projects creating or modernising import-substituting production. The order is one of several in-year top-ups to the FRP in 2025, which had already received close to RUB 21 billion in additional capitalisation over the year.

On 23 December 2025 the Government of the Russian Federation, via Order No. 3959-r signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, allocated more than RUB 1.3 billion (approx. USD 17 million) from the government's reserve fund to co-finance completion of four crab-catching vessels under construction at shipyards in the Far Eastern Federal District. The subsidy is split into four equal tranches of RUB 340 million to fishing companies (including LLC "TRK", LLC "Voskhod", LLC "Antey Sever" and LLC "Sever") holding investment-quota allocations for crab fishing, under a programme that ties quota rights to a domestic shipbuilding commitment. The order is part of a broader 2024-2026 investment-quota vessel programme covering 13 crab-catching vessels and roughly RUB 6.4 billion in cumulative state support.

On 15 December 2025 the Government of the Russian Federation, via Order No. 3758-р signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, allocated an additional RUB 60.58 billion (approx. USD 759 million) from the government's reserve fund to subsidise interest payments and provide financial grants to Russian credit organisations supporting preferential loans to agricultural producers. The allocation preserves preferential interest rates on roughly 48,000 previously issued loans, freeing working capital for producers to expand output of cereals, fruit and vegetables. It brings total 2025 federal subsidisation of the preferential agricultural credit programme to RUB 250.1 billion.

On 15 December 2025 Rosatom's fuel division (via subsidiary Renera, under managing company TVEL) put Russia's first full-cycle lithium-ion battery "gigafactory" into pilot-industrial operation in the Neman district of Kaliningrad Oblast. Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Mikhail Ivanov disclosed that the project was financed through a comprehensive state-support package: a RUB 5 billion preferential loan from the federal Industry Development Fund (FRP) under its "Avtokomponenty" (auto-components) programme, plus RUB 5 billion in direct subsidies from the Kaliningrad Oblast government, alongside a special investment contract (SPIC) for the project. The facility has a design capacity of 4 GWh/year — enough to supply battery packs for roughly 50,000 electric vehicles — and is described by officials as a step toward Russian "technological sovereignty" in energy-storage manufacturing following the exit of Western and Asian battery suppliers since 2022.

On 11 December 2025 the Government of the Russian Federation issued Order No. 3701-r, allocating more than RUB 966 million (approx. USD 12.1 million) from the government's reserve fund to the Industry Development Fund (Fond razvitiya promyshlennosti, FRP). The FRP extends concessional loans (3-5% annual rates, up to 7-year terms) to Russian industrial enterprises developing technologies and production intended to replace foreign analogues. The order is one of several in-year top-ups to the FRP in 2025, which had already been recapitalised by close to RUB 20 billion earlier in the year.

On 3 December 2025 Russia's federal Industry Development Fund (FRP) disclosed a concessional loan of RUB 2.4 billion (approx. USD 30.2 million) to Liteyny Zavod "Petrozavodskmash" (LZ PZM), a foundry subsidiary of rail-equipment group Transmashholding (TMX), to fund purchase of casting and machining equipment. The financing supports a project titled "Localisation of foundry blanks for various diesel engines," shifting the plant from simple castings toward complex cylinder-head and engine-suspension components (new capacity: 13,800 cylinder heads and 7,000 engine suspensions per year) for diesel engines used by Kolomna Plant and Penza Diesel. The loan was disclosed the same day Karelia's regional head, Artur Parfenchikov, opened a new 1,700 sq m machining section at the foundry, with TMX framing the project as advancing Russia's "technological sovereignty" in engine manufacturing (import substitution for diesel engine components).

On 20 November 2025 Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed Government Order No. 3351-r, approving a list of 15 companies selected to receive a combined RUB 4.97 billion in 2025 federal infrastructure subsidies under the "New Opportunities for the Far East" federal project (part of the "Socio-Economic Development of the Far Eastern Federal District" state programme). The two largest line items — RUB 2 billion (~USD 24.7m) each, the programme's legal per-project ceiling — go to OOO "Amur Minerals" for grid connection at its planned mining-and-processing plant on the Malmyzhskoye copper-gold deposit (Khabarovsk Krai) and to OOO "Udokanskaya Med'" (Udokan Copper) for construction of a transport-storage complex at its Udokan copper mining-and-metallurgical combine (Zabaykalsky Krai). Subsidies reimburse a share of investors' capital spending on power grid connection, water/heat networks and access infrastructure, contingent on job-creation and capex targets set out in the order's annex.

On 31 October 2025 the Government of the Russian Federation, via Order No. 3080-р signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, allocated more than RUB 34.6 billion (approx. USD 428.8 million) to subsidise preferential loans for Russian agricultural producers. The allocation provides financial grants and interest-payment subsidies to credit organisations that issue short-term and investment loans to farmers and processors at below-market rates under the standing federal preferential-lending programme. The measure was published on the government's official portal on 1 November 2025.

Russia's federal Industry Development Fund (FRP) disclosed a RUB 950 million (approx. USD 12 million) concessional loan under its "Development Projects" programme to biopharmaceutical company Nanolek LLC, financing purchase of high-tech equipment for Russia's first domestic human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine production line. The facility, part of a RUB 7.5 billion total investment in the Orichevsky District of Kirov Region, opened 25-29 October 2025 and produces the "Tsegardeks" vaccine at an initial capacity of over 600,000 doses per year, rising to 3-3.5 million doses annually by 2027 with a planned second production line.

Russia's federal Industry Development Fund (FRP) disclosed a RUB 930 million (approx. USD 11.4 million) concessional loan to ООО "ПК "Промтрактор" (Promtraktor Production Company LLC, part of Kontsern Traktornye Zavody) in Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic, funding purchase of 98 units of high-tech casting and machining equipment as part of a RUB 1.2 billion total modernisation. The loan financed serial production of two new heavy-bulldozer models, CHETRA T30 (30-tonne class) and CHETRA T45 (45-tonne class, billed as Russia's most powerful serial-production bulldozer), which entered series production 23 October 2025. Resulting capacity for bulldozer, pipe-layer and front-end-loader components rose 25% to 13,700 units per year, with management targeting a rise in CHETRA's domestic heavy-bulldozer market share from ~30% to 70%, partially displacing Western imports (e.g. Caterpillar, Komatsu) that exited the Russian market after 2022.

Federal Law No. 297-FZ, adopted 31 July 2025, amends Article 150 of the Russian Tax Code to add a new exemption (clause 23) from import VAT for engines, spare parts and components imported into Russia for the construction, repair or modernization of civilian unmanned aerial vehicles with a maximum take-off weight between 0.15 and 30 kg. The exemption also covers printed technical publications and prototype components necessary for developing or testing such UAVs and their engines. The measure takes effect 1 October 2025 and is intended to lower input costs for Russia's domestic civilian-drone manufacturing base, which has scaled up sharply since 2022 alongside the country's military UAV program.