Mr Osipov informed the President about the state of progress on a project to raise scientists’ wages, saying that wages have shown a more than 2-fold increase over the last two years.
Asked by Mr Putin about work to modernise technical equipment used in fundamental science, Mr Osipov said that the Russian Academy of Sciences has already established several centres offering collective use of scientific equipment. New instruments and apparatuses are being purchased for these centres, which can be used by scientists from different scientific research institutes.