The Russian government will increase the state support for non-energy exports in a bid to diversify its raw-material-based economy, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday, RIA-Novosti reports.
“Our goal is to ensure state financial support for at least 13-15 percent of Russian non-energy exports by 2018,” RIA-Novosti quotes Medvedev as speaking at a government meeting on state support for hi-tech exports.
In 2011, the state granted support for just 0.6 percent of such exports, Medvedev said.
