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Meeting of the Russian Federation State Duma.Part 7 May 8, 2008 Moscow Отчёт о заседании Государственной Думы. 8 мая 2008 года Москва At the federal level, we will support and carry out programmes to establish a whole network of modern science and education centres in Russia. We are looking at organising 16-20 such centres, some to be developed from scratch and others opened at existing universities. Aside from the universities themselves, these centres will include academic and sector-based research and development institutes. This kind of integration will help these centres achieve a place among the world leaders more rapidly and make their mark as major national and international research facilities. We will definitely establish one such centre in the Russian Far East, where it will play a key role in developing the entire region. As you know, we are preparing for the APEC summit in the Far East. We are always being asked what we intend to do with the buildings, installations and resources that will be invested in this big event. Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev proposed handing the whole complex over to science and education, and I think that this is an excellent initiative. We will soon adopt the federal targeted programme, Academics for an Innovative Russia in 2009-2013. This programme will help us to address the important issue of training new researchers and educators. Now, turning to healthcare development, we cannot be satisfied with the level of affordability and …