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All paths are open to our young people, one would like to believe.

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I hope so.

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Have you heard this meme: ”How do you like it, Elon Musk?“

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No, I have not.

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But have you heard about Elon Musk?

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Yes, of course.

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He is launching a Tesla, 

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while Rogozin is creating an elevator to the moon.

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An elevator to the moon? 

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And so? 

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They are in different leagues.

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I can give you different examples.

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A group of young people from a graduating class showed up.

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This whole group of people came.

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Where?

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To one of our institutes and created the Iskander.

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This group of young people from a graduating class showed up and in a few years, they created the Iskander.

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One of our cutting-edge weapons that we are proud of.

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The best in the world.

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Young people showed up and created the Peresvet.

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This is an example from the defense industry. But they did it.

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So, let them create a Tesla-like passenger car.

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Prokhorov said he would make…

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An airplane.

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He did not succeed yet.

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Ah, yes, the Yo-mobile.

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He promised; he showed it to me. I even went for a ride in it.

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But it has not been working for him so far.

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In the high-tech field and in the nuclear sphere we have been making great strides.

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We have outperformed everyone; we are the world's largest manufacturer of nuclear units for power plants. 

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Not weapons, mind you. This is state-of-the-art technology.

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It is developing very rapidly.

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If we look at military equipment, say military aviation,

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we are really on top here.

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We will continue moving forward in the civilian sector as well.

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We already have our own pharmaceutical products, very good ones.  And so on. 

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Gradually, it is gaining momentum.

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I meant something different.

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What?

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When I mentioned Musk.

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He is not exactly an idol, but some sort of a role model.

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Fine, but…

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Whom can we offer as an alternative, not an American…?

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We have Kaspersky. 

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I believe he is really good at what he does. He is a leader, without a doubt.

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If the screws had not been tightened,

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if competition had not been artificially stifled,

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it would have been much better. This is what comes to mind right away.

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How do you feel about the fact that according to one of the opinion polls

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half of the young people want to leave the country?

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There are all sorts of opinion polls.

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And target groups can also differ.

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Some want to leave, others want to return.

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As I have already said, the latter’s numbers are on the rise.

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Certainly, if we want our people to fulfill their ambitions in their own country, 

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the state must boost its efforts to ensure this. 

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And we will do so.

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I think that the number of good specialists is steadily growing 

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and the fact that our specialists find employment in the global labor market

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 means that we provide a good higher education.

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Does the Leaders of Russia contest live up to your expectations?

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Yes, of course. They are really great guys.

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However, not only do we have the Leaders of Russia contest,

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there is also Russia – Land of Opportunity,

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with a whole set of mechanisms that seem to be working very efficiently.

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And what do you think the criterion is? 

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Is it the number of public appointees or the number of proposals coming from…?

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Among the contests I mentioned, we do not have a single contest for a specific job or office.

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We simply allow people to expand their knowledge 

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and capabilities even more, yet simultaneously,

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 when working with these people, representatives of major corporations or ministries 

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and agencies pick out future employees.

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Actually, by doing so we have already found ministers,

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deputy ministers and even governors and deputy governors.

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This is a very good social elevator.

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The Sirius project also represents such a new experience.

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I mean the Sirius center.

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Sirius is a little different.

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Of course. It applies to young people, I mean.

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Absolutely, but this is a method of working with gifted children.

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 We have never had… Well, we did.

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In Soviet times?

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Yes, we did… Actually, when I was deciding to create Sirius I… 

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By the way, do you know how this idea emerged?

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No, I do not.

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Olympic facilities in the Imereti Valley.

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Suggestions immediately started coming in to dismantle something 

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and relocate it somewhere.

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But dismantling and relocating would cost us about the same as constructing something new.

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It would be better to change the location,

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and finally I decided to build something new in some other place.

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But how do we make use of what is available? 

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At first, a simple, even primitive, thought entered my mind: 

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to use these facilities for children's sports.

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But later I thought, why just for sports?

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 We inherited a system of advanced education and training from the USSR.

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I mean physics and mathematics schools, biology schools,

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then music colleges at conservatories,

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ballet schools. We are proud of all this.

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And, of course, sports, that is figure skating,

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our prestigious sports where we have good capabilities and where we have been successful, 

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and hockey.

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So, I came up with an idea of putting this together.

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Do you mean the original idea was yours?

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Yes, yes, I came up with it.

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A colleague of mine who was invited there 

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said to one of his colleagues, ”He is not going to succeed“.

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When asked why, he said, “To begin with,

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your hockey players will beat up the math whiz kids.”

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Yet, nothing of the kind has occurred there.

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Because kids, even powerful athletic lads,

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respect their peers who achieve noticeable success in their fields 

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because they know that this requires great effort and talent.

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So, Sirius… By the way, I was the one who came up with the name as well. 

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I was sitting and thinking about a name 

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and suddenly I recalled that the brightest star in the sky is Sirius.

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It brings together the brightest kids.

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That is why I proposed this name. And the name stuck.

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 It could not have been otherwise

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But why?

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Putin said so.

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Anything can happen.

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Here, we use the system of selecting gifted kids 

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established back in the Soviet Union.

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I mean these physics and mathematics schools,

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biology schools, music schools and so on.

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From these schools, every 21 days we pick a group of kids for Sirius 

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and arrange 21‑day training courses for them.

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Then we pick out those with the best potential.

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It turned out to be a very good idea.

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Moreover, do you know what is interesting and what I especially like about this? 

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Here, we see athletes communicating with math geniuses 

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while math geniuses may go to see a hockey match or ballet performance for the first time.

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Thus, they get involved in physical fitness.

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This is really great. I like this very much.

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The next step should be to create a modern university.

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We have already set up a scientific cluster of laboratories there 

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specializing in such priority fields.

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There are several of them, four, I believe.

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Then we intend to create a technology park there 

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consisting of a school, a university, and a scientific laboratory,

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and the techno park where innovations can materialize.

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We will link the whole process.