Today President of the Skolkovo Foundation Viktor Vekselberg, and Russian Federal Migration Service Director Konstantin Romodanovsky signed an Agreement on Cooperation between the “Foundation for the Development of the Center of Development and Commercialization of High Technologies”(Skolkovo Foundation) and the Federal Migration Service (FMS).
The main purpose of the Agreement is to provide cooperation of the Skolkovo Foundation and the Russian Federal Migration Service in the preparation of documents for entry and work permits for foreign nationals who will work at the Skolkovo Innovation Center . For simplification of the procedures it is planned to establish a subdivision of FMS of Russia in Skolkovo.
According to President of the Skolkovo Foundation Viktor Vekselberg, “an agreement with the Russian Federal Migration Service will solve one of the major tasks of the Skolkovo Foundation: to create favorable conditions for attraction of highly skilled professionals and scientists from abroad”.
Director of the Russian Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovsky emphasized that “FMS seeks to develop and modernize the Russian economy, and the agreement that was signed today is the next step in a number of amendments to Russian migration legislation providing preferential treatment for highly skilled foreign professionals”.
About the Skolkovo Innovation Center Project:
Skolkovo Innovation Center is a new town aimed to provide special economic conditions for companies operating in the priority sectors of Russia's economic modernization, such as: space and telecommunications, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, energy efficiency, information technology, and nuclear technology. The main aim of the Foundation is to create in Skolkovo a special environment that will help concentrating intellectual resources and successfully produce innovations. On Feb. 11, 2010 during a meeting of the Commission on the Modernization and Technological Development of the Russian Economy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced that a decree on establishment of Russian Research and Development Center (Skolkovo Innovation Centre) had been signed. The Skolkovo Foundation Council is co-headed by Viktor Vekselberg, Chairman of the Renova Group Board of Directors, and Craig Barrett, the former head of Intel Corporation. Co-Chairmen of the Skolkovo Advisory Scientific Board are Nobel laureates Jaures Alferov and Roger Kornberg. More information on the Skolkovo project can be found at www.i-Gorod.com.
All issues shall be addressed to:
Andrey Shtorkh, official representative of the Skolkovo Foundation President
+7(495)933-35-25, press@i-gorod.com