Written by Michael Thervil
Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at the Plenary meeting of the Future Technologies Forum in Moscow, Russia. During the course of his roughly 20-minute speech, he advocated for Russia to not only be self-sufficient as a global superpower, but he also stressed the importance of Russia creating, developing, and leading the word when it comes to technology and engineering of all types. President Putin also insisted that Russia place special emphasis on chemistry, the increased extraction of lithium, the continuation of the creation of cheap energy, and making the Russian education system more robust, in hindsight, it should be noted that Russia has always been known for it’s innovation since the days of it being known as the U.S.S.R. and even more so now that is has reached the status of being the most sanctioned country on earth.
According to the Kremlin's website, The Plenary meeting of the Future Technologies Forum, is a forum that specifically focuses on the construction and implementation on:
“new materials and chemistry. This year marks the launch of a national technological leadership project titled New Materials and Chemistry. Its goal is to develop infrastructure and create conditions for the production of chemicals and biotechnological products, advanced composite materials, as well as rare and rare-earth metals.”
Photo by Sergei Bobylev, TASS
Currently, rare earth metals are all the rage (as they’ve always been) because they serve as the basis for the development of advanced technologies used in the modern world. Those that were in attendance of the Plenary meeting of the Future Technologies Forum Were: President of the Kurchatov Institute National Research Centre Mikhail Kovalchuk; Head of a laboratory at the Zelinsky Organic Chemistry Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valentin Ananikov (DSc Chemistry); Aide to the President of the Kurchatov Institute National Research Centre Vladislav Antipov; Head of the Laboratory for Materials Science and Studying the Properties of Materials at Luch Science and Production Association Nadezhda Potekhina (PhD Chemistry); and Head of a research group at the Russian Quantum Centre, Head of the Laboratory of Physical Properties of Hetero-Structures and Spintronics for Energy-Saving Information Technologies of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Alexander Chernov (DSc Physics and Mathematics).
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