The message reads:

Dear Mr Alfyorov,

Please accept my warmest wishes on your birthday.

"An outstanding scientist and Nobel Prize laureate, you enjoy a deserved prestige with academic community members and your numerous followers. You fundamental works on solid state physics and optoelectronics became the basis for new scientific trends, while their results are widely used in practice.

Today, you successfully combine research, teaching and public activities, and do much for strengthening international partnership in the innovation area. Your vast experience, knowledge and world fame are in-demand for the large-scale Skolkovo project.

I wish you good health and success.

Dmitry Medvedev