UrBC, Moscow, September 8, 2015. Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev signed a decree allocating 1.25bn RUR worth of subsidies to twenty federal constituencies, the Russian Government's website states.

'The present decree confirms that 1,250m RUR must be allocated from the federal budget 2015 funds to twenty Russian Federation constituencies for the development of twenty-four innovative clusters,' the document states.

Under this decree, Tatarstan will get the biggest bit, 158m RUR. 135 m RUR will go to Samara Region, and 104m RUR will be directed to Novosibirsk Region. Sverdlovsk Region happens to be nearly at the other end of the list from these top three: the constituency will be given 37m RUR.