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Home / Bioethanol / News Major education and training centres should be established - Putin.ITAR-TASS World Service
«In particular, the country's south has its own tasks of developing thee economy that are different from other regions. And here, for instance, one of the most important areas is agriculture. But you should understand another thing—gas and oil as fuels are important at present, and Russia is one of leaders. But humanity will switch over to biofuel. This area is becoming the most important,» Putin said. He said «large-scale resources for it are available only in the US, Canada and Russia, and at the new stage of fuel and energy development Russia can be among leaders if, for example, scientists of the Southern Federal University are able to develop and put in practice biofuel productions». «Then Russia will be among world leaders at this stage, and the education system in the same Southern Federal University will allow providing to the world developments for decades ahead. This is the goal of the establishing major education, training and production centres in the country,» Putin said. One of student asked Putin about the need to import equipment. «It is necessary to achieve amalgamation of universities with the largest research centres, where there is high-technology equipment. Besides, we should think of attracting private funds for purchase of equipment from companies that need equipment the very equipment for work and for the training of specialists for working with this equipment,» the president said. Addressing Deputy Prime Minister, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, the president said it was necessary to think «how to secure the attraction of funds of private companies for buying such equipment, to think over law provisions». «Thus we are currently short of state-of-art technological equipment for the development of mineral resources. Just for this reason we engage for work in Russia foreign firms and specialists,» Putin said. He added that recreation of university students was important. The recreation facilities should be complete with clubs, libraries, and sport bases, Putin said
Date: 15.11.2007 Leave your comment
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