chairman of the committee alexander khenshtein noted that the draft budget currently provides for a reductionallocations for the program of teaching modern programming languages to high school students. moreover, that russia is experiencing a personnel shortage in the it sector. more funds, the deputies believe, should be allocated to solving the problem. with the availability of communications in populated areas, colleagues, we have a draft decision , it has been distributed to everyone, there is a proposal in it, which means that for finalizing the draft, the budget is due for the second reading, in terms of increasing the amount of funds allocated to the program for eliminating the digital divide. the culture committee recommended supporting the draft budget in the first reading. next year , funding for the national project will be increased. will be allocated for it almost 50 billion rubles. in addition , next year the budget allocates more than 200 billion 300 million rubles for the cultural development program. concern for personnel is declared a priority by deputies, and the main iss