He noted that everything can be purchased with oil and gas revenues, but in this case there will be no production.
“Therefore, this current situation is pushing us to work independently in many areas, including the production of our own scientific instrumentation,” RIA Novosti quoted Putin as saying at a meeting with young scientists at the Sirius Center.
The President added that the Russian state had done this before the current events and would continue to do so.
Earlier, Putin said that a big leap in science is currently possible in Russia for the transition to a new technological order.