Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and had television linkups with its branches in Korolev, Moscow Region, and in Kiev
During the linkup with Kiev, Mr Putin stressed the necessity of developing Russian-Ukrainian educational and scientific contacts.
"Such pooled efforts in personnel training and research would certainly promote our industries, especially high technologies," he said, adding that Ukraine was known for high-tech industries, in particular, ship and aircraft building.
As he addressed Boris Paton, President of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and head of the Kiev branch of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Mr Putin said that the preceding decades had established natural links between the two countries' research and educational centres, and those links should be preserved.
The Prime Minister spoke about the extension of student exchanges and said that many Ukrainians were studying in Russia-in particular, more than 130 at the Institute of Physics and Technology.
"I would like to see a reciprocal opportunity provided for our young people to study at the leading Ukrainian universities," he said.
