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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates famous economist and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Leonid Abalkin on his 80th birthday

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The message reads, in part:

"In many years of research, organization and teaching, you have contributed a great deal to the development of a new, promising areas of scientific thought, and have brought up an array of talented economists, both theorists and practitioners. Even today you continue to do much to sustain the remarkable traditions of the Russian economic school, and are a wonderful example of devotion to one's profession."