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This paper reviews the Russian development and refinement of national priority areas and critical technologies in the recent past. It discusses in some detail the contents of each critical technology and its potential for innovation and contribution to the national goals in a situation of constrained resources. The paper concludes with a review of the systems in place to evaluate S&T and innovation activities from the national to the individual levels and the directions in which such systems are expected to develop further.