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RUSNANO CEO Anatoly Chubais awarded with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland IV class

Press release (Eng)

The President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev has awarded RUSNANO CEO Anatoly Chubais with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland IV class.

As stated in the text of the presidential decree, Anatoly Chubais was awarded "for the outstanding contribution to the implementation of state policy in nanotechnology and many years of honest work".

RUSNANO was founded in March 2011 as an open joint stock company through reorganization of state corporation Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies. RUSNANO's mission is to develop the Russian nanotechnology industry through co-investment in nanotechnology projects with substantial economic potential or social benefit. The Government of the Russian Federation owns 100 percent of the shares in RUSNANO. Anatoly Chubais is CEO and chairman of the Executive Board of RUSNANO.

Work to establish nanotechnology infrastructure and training for nanotechnology specialists, formerly conducted by the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, has been entrusted to the Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs, a non-commercial fund also established through reorganization of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies.

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