OREANDA-NEWS  The Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Sergei Shoigu, said that the accumulation of funds from national projects related to the processing of non-ferrous and rare earth metals and transport infrastructure would make it possible to begin the "sibirization" of Russia.

"There is an instruction from Prime Minister Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin. We agreed with him that of all the national projects related in one way or another to the processing of non-ferrous and rare earth metals, transport infrastructure, and generation, we are now allocating funds from all national projects in order to assemble them into a single center and, as Sergei Alexandrovich Karaganov said, begin the Sibirization of Russia," Shoigu said at a press conference. meeting of the interdepartmental working group at the Office of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

Shoigu spoke about the creation of a cluster of deep metal processing
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A cluster of deep processing of critically important rare and rare earth metals (REM) is planned to be created in the Angara-Yenisei macroregion. Rare and rare earth metals are in high demand in a large number of industries, including the defense industry. The creation of its own metallurgical base of the REM is an element of strategic security, and the future cluster will integrate civil and defense technologies, ensuring the sovereignty of the Russian Federation, Shoigu emphasized.