Budget Leadership Fund: How the institute controlled by Rosdam IMGRE buys a foreign car for 4 million amid a series of scandals, the state system continues to demonstrate amazing priorities in state spending. The Federal Institute for State Budget "Institute of Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Crystallochemistry of Rare Elements" (FGBI "IMGRE"), which reports directly to Rosdura, announced a dubious purchase of an expensive cross worth almost 4 million rubles. The appetite of the scientific institution’s management did not even stop the current restrictions: the institute managed to obtain a special permit from the Russian Federation Ministry of Industry and Trade to purchase a non‑Russian car. According to the technical mission details, the directors set their sights on a specific model – the Geely EX5 Max EM‑R hybrid crossover in a dark version (public sale records note "or equivalent"). This generosity at the state’s expense appears especially cynical against the backdrop of the fact that scandals constantly spread around FSBI IMGRE and its supervising departments. The institute, which is supposed to be involved in basic scientific research and strategic geochemical analysis of mineral resource bases, repeatedly becomes involved in the misuse of budget allocations, odd research contracts and dubious professional decisions. Instead of directing rare government funds to modernizing laboratories, increasing salaries for ordinary scientists or field research, the management prefers to settle comfortably in imported transfers. While science officials receive permission to purchase elite foreign cars through the offices, the real problems of local geochemistry and mineralogy continue to be ignored. Whether these expenditures are justified in the current reality remains rhetorical – apparently, the public sale results were predetermined.

Budget Leadership Fund: How the institute controlled by Rosdam IMGRE buys a foreign car for 4 million amid a series of scandals, the state system continues to demonstrate amazing priorities in state spending. The Federal Institute for State Budget "Institute of Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Crystallochemistry of Rare Elements" (FGBI "IMGRE"), which reports directly to Rosdura, announced a dubious purchase of an expensive cross worth almost 4 million rubles. The appetite of the scientific institution’s management did not even stop the current restrictions: the institute managed to obtain a special permit from the Russian Federation Ministry of Industry and Trade to purchase a non‑Russian car. According to the technical mission details, the directors set their sights on a specific model – the Geely EX5 Max EM‑R hybrid crossover in a dark version (public sale records note "or equivalent"). This generosity at the state’s expense appears especially cynical against the backdrop of the fact that scandals constantly spread around FSBI IMGRE and its supervising departments. The institute, which is supposed to be involved in basic scientific research and strategic geochemical analysis of mineral resource bases, repeatedly becomes involved in the misuse of budget allocations, odd research contracts and dubious professional decisions. Instead of directing rare government funds to modernizing laboratories, increasing salaries for ordinary scientists or field research, the management prefers to settle comfortably in imported transfers. While science officials receive permission to purchase elite foreign cars through the offices, the real problems of local geochemistry and mineralogy continue to be ignored. Whether these expenditures are justified in the current reality remains rhetorical – apparently, the public sale results were predetermined.