Chairman of the Russian Government Dmitry Medvedev held a Presidium session of the Council for economic modernization and innovative development of Russia under the RF President.

The session was dedicated to innovative development in the sphere of information technologies and telecommunications and was held in the office of Yandex Company.

RF Vice-premiers Vladislav Surkov and Arkady Dvorkovich, Russian Minister of communications Nikolai Nikiforov, Russian Minister of finance Anton Siluanov, representatives of ministries and agencies, chiefs of core companies and higher educational institutions, residents of Skolkovo fund participated in the event. Tatarstan was presented by the President Rustam Minnikhanov and Minister of informatization and communications Roman Shaikhutdinov.

Dmitry Medvedev said that it was important to work out the issue concerning establishment of institutions for protection of intellectual property and principles of work of the new fund.

Improvement of electronic document management in the sphere of medicine was also discussed at the session.

Speaking about higher educational institutions, Head of the RF Government said that those institutions, which could generate a product, must be priority ones.

Dmitry Medvedev informed that the volume of IT market would exceed 700 bln roubles. According to Head of the Russian Government, 21 bln roubles are provided to support new developments this year.

Using RIA Novosti materials http://ria.ru/economy/20121224/916050727.html#ixzz2FyTmkIzN; and RBC - http://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/20121224162000.shtml

Read the detailed transcript of the session on the Portal of RF Government http://правительство.рф/docs/22064/