Ceremony for Presenting the 2007 Russian National Awards.Part 1
June 12, 2008
The Kremlin, Moscow
Церемония вручения Государственных премий России 2007 года.
12 июня 2008 года
Москва, Кремль
PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Dear winners!
Dear colleagues and friends!
Let me begin by congratulating you on our national holiday, the Day of Russia, and the national awards winners on this landmark event in their lives.
It is deeply symbolic that it is precisely on this day that the awards ceremony for the most important, most prestigious prizes of Russia takes place, on the day that we are particularly aware of the greatness of our country's historical path and the inextricable link we have with our native land and true home.
June 12 is firmly linked with the values of democracy and freedom. And we are well aware that the free development of our society and the self-realization of our citizens is the best foundation for ensuring that Russia can be a leader in the intellectual and technological spheres, as well as ensuring Russia's high competitiveness based on breakthrough achievements and creative types of development.
I would emphasize that such a massive task can be accomplished only by cultivating human abilities and talents, by increasing the value and prestige of creative and educational activities and, of course, through the mass influx of youth into education, culture and science.
People who have devoted their lives to searching for new ideas in the intellectual and artistic spheres play an enormous role in this process. Their labour, energy and successes inspire young citizens of Russia and stimulate their desire to set more ambitious life goals, think progressively, and act apace with progress. Today this is especially important for our country.
Dear friends!
The winners of the national awards are, of course, among the most outstanding citizens of Russia. They include mathematician Vladimir Igorevich Arnold, an internationally renowned scientist and unquestioned authority. He is the author of 600 scientific papers and 20 monographs. His work has had a decisive impact on most fields of research in contemporary mathematics. Even as a young scientist he made a brilliant contribution to the famous Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theory. It is hard to believe, but Vladimir Igorevich was only 26 years old at the time. But this theory has had an enormous influence on celestial mechanics and stability theory.
Academician Arnold is also the creator of the modern theory of catastrophes and, in particular, discovered a universal mechanism of instability dubbed "Arnold diffusion" by physicists.
Today, incidentally, is Vladimir Igorevich's birthday. And we congratulate him with all our hearts. It is very pleasant to have a birthday as well as to receive an award.
Another winner is our outstanding scholar and linguist Andrei Anatolyevich Zaliznyak. He has made an enormous contribution to Russian and international linguistics. His unique works are devoted to analysing Russian language and a systematic description of its morphology.
Andrei Anatolyevich's works are characterized by profound and unexpected observations and the desire to get to the very essence of the subject of the study. Virtually all of them contain new discoveries. His great historic merit is his detailed linguistic analysis of the Slovo o polku Igoreve (Song of Igor's Campaign), a masterpiece of Old Russian literature. And thanks to this truly outstanding research scholars were able to conclude the debate on the authenticity of this Old Russian text, a text which is a precursor to all Russian literature.
A national award has also been awarded to Alexei Removich Khokhlov, one of the world's leading scientists in the field of polymers. He developed a fundamental theory in the field of polymer systems which created a new direction of polymer physics. And this is only one of his multifaceted and fruitful activities. Their results are very much in demand and widely used.
He has contributed to unique durable and bio-compatible plastics and catalysts for production of vitamins, and polymer liquids for oil extraction. I think it is essential that those who have won national awards in science and technology will soon give special public lectures to a wide-ranging Russian public.
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