Meeting with mega-grant recipients and young scientists
(World News Russia)

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, friends, I am glad to welcome you all in Sochi. I hope you like it here. It is a nice and beautiful place. Many of you have already been here. I am pleased to welcome everybody who came. I have already met with some of you. I think it was in September 2016. Then you and your colleagues put forward a number of meaningful proposals, constructive and interesting ideas, which we tried to work on at once. That is how the mega-grants programme was continued. Over the past two years alone almost 80 good, world-class - in your own view - laboratories have been established in universities and research organisations. Now there are already 236 of them...