Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the trustees of the Russian Geographical Society
“Our goal is to turn the Russian Geographical Society into a major venue for discussing ways to achieve our priority objectives of maintaining and deepening our geographical knowledge as well as knowledge of our natural wealth and the ethnic and cultural heritage of the country. We must turn the Geographical Society into an intellectual venue and an organising centre for research in all related spheres.”
“We have taken positive steps in construction over the past few years. For example, housing construction has reached 60 million square metres per year. This is a good figure. However, it is mainly the effect of day-to-day ‘manual control’. Unfortunately, no effective model has been created yet to regulate the construction industry automatically.”
Mr Zubkov has summorised the results of the fishing industry in 2009 and set objectives for 2010.