Д.Медведев.Церемония вручения ГП РФ.12.06.09.Part 1

Speech at Ceremony for Presenting the 2008 Russian National Awards.Part 1
June 12, 2009
Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow

Церемония вручения Государственных премий Российской Федерации 2008 года.
12 июня 2009 года
Москва, Большой Кремлёвский дворец

PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Dear laureates, dear friends,

First of all, I want to welcome you and congratulate you on the Day of Russia. This national holiday is even younger than our country itself and is directly connected to todays events and to our daily lives. At the same time, it gives us the chance to look back over our history, look at events far in the past now and others that are still just recent, and gain a deeper awareness of our responsibility for our countrys future.

Russia is a country with immense intellectual potential. We say this often without really thinking about the full meaning of these words. But I think this is our countrys main competitive advantage. Today, more than ever, we need to make the greatest use of this advantage, and this means creating more space for freedom, creativity and competition, and channelling ideas and new developments into a technologically well organised commercial process.

If we want Russia to be a strong and advanced country we have to create a comfortable environment for our people to live and work in, an environment that will satisfy even the most demanding, energetic and independent among us, those who want to and can take responsibility for their own destinies, who are full of aspirations for the future and ready for development.

The awards will be presented now to people who have achieved success in their professions and made a unique contribution to our common development and our common national capital.

Dear friends, the success story of one of our laureates, Evgeny Kaspersky, represents an unfortunately still too rare case of closing the gap as much as possible between creativity and the subsequent commercial development and use of the technology it gives birth too. Mr Kasperskys work in computer security is based on innovative and very interesting solutions. Big state and commercial organisations in more than 100 countries and hundreds of millions of people all around the world use products developed by Kaspersky Lab today.

Among this years laureates is Joseph Atabekov. He is the founder of molecular biology of plant viruses as a new area of scientific study in our country. Practically all of the specialists working in this field are his students. His discoveries laid the foundation for developing virus-free plant growing in our country.

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Согласно принятому решению, премию, вручение которой состоится 12 июня 2009 года, получат астрофизик Дмитрий Варшалович, вирусолог Иосиф Атабеков и генеральный директор "Лаборатории Касперского" Евгений Касперский. Каждый из лауреатов получит по пять миллионов рублей.