Medvedev confident in new Russian science

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev said he is confident that Russia will succeed in developing fundamental and applied sciences. He was speaking at a ceremony of awarding the best young Russian scientists of 2009.  The president said that the new scientific development implies the creation new scientific infrastructure, not the return to the Soviet scientific model. It will be based on state and private investments, moral incentive and the protection of the intellectual property, he said. No matter how proud we are of the scientific achievements of the Soviet period we understand that they were made in those conditions which had their own advantages and disadvantages. Now the country is different, the economy is different and the whole world is different, Medvedev said. And we should not be discouraged that some of the applied studies do not bring any evident commercial profit.