Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will personally keep an eye on the construction of a state-of-the-art innovation center in Skolkovo outside Moscow. A statement to this effect was made on Thursday by Viktor Vekselberg, head of the Russian section of a council responsible for overseeing the Skolkovo project. Vekselberg said that he earlier met with a handful of foreign businessmen and scientists, who signaled their readiness to contribute to the project’s implementation. Among them, ex-Intel chief Craig Barrett, who also agreed to oversee the construction of the Skolkovo innovation hub, which many have already called a Russian Silicon Valley.
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