Putin Orders Top Universities to Submit Development Plans
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08.04.2010
Prime Minister Putin has given the Rectors of Russia’s Federal Universities one month in which to submit development and expansion plans, The Voice of Russia reports. Meeting with them in Novosibirsk in Western Siberia Friday, he promised their establishments 400 million roubles each upfront and one more similar disbursement before 2013. The Federal Universities came into existence in 2009 and number five. They are in Arkhangelsk on the White Sea, Kazan on the Volga, Yekaterinburg in the Urals, Yakutsk in northeastern Siberia and Vladivostok on the Sea of Japan. Later on Friday, Mr Putin inspected Novosibirsk aircraft makers, which assemble Sukhoi fighter bombers and also manufacture parts for a cutting-edge fifth-generation fighter and the Superjet 100 mid-haul airliner.