By Olga Razumovskaya, the Moscow Times
Andreyeva, however, is not your typical teenager. She is the winner of 13 academic competitions, or “Olympiads,” among high-school students and was presented at a meeting of the Russian Rectors’ Union last month as the future of Russia’s IT industry. Russian authorities, educators and employers are betting on teenagers like Andreyeva whom they believe will be the generation of intellectuals that can help transform Russia’s natural resource-based economy into one based on innovation. In June of last year, President Dmitry Medvedev instituted the presidential commission on modernization and outlined five key priority areas for modernizing the Russian economy: medical technology and pharmaceuticals, computer technology and programming, energy efficiency and renewable resources, space technologies and communications, and nuclear technologies.
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