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The regular interinstitutional seminar "Contemporary problems of development" (under the coordination of Dr. V.G. Khoros) took place at the IMEMO on March 16, 2015. The main speaker was S.D. Bodrunov, Director of the Institute of new industrial development in the name of S. Witte (St. Petersbourg).

S. D. Bodrunov is a doctor of economic science, professor at St. Petersburg State University of aerospace device-making and at the same time a businessman, a shareholder of some financial-industrial groups in engineering, financial sector, IT-technologies, etc. 18 years ago he founded the Institute of New industrial development as a private one and at the same time as a part of the Department of social Sciences in RAS.

The main idea of the speaker was to prove a necessity of reindustrialization of Russia by means of integration between real sector, science and education. The center of this process should be development of high-tech.

The scolars of the IMEMO: V. Pantin, I. Danilin, A. Salitsky, A. Rogozhin, E. Bragina, V. Khoros and of other scientific centers: V. Meliyantsev (IAAS MSU), A. Buzgalin (Moscow University), A. Vinogradov (Institute of Far East, RAS), R. Dzarasov and V. Koltashev (Institute of economy in the name of G. V. Plekhanov), etc. took place in the discussion. According to some of them, the principal problem of reindustrialization is to mobilize political and social groups interested in the restructuring of the national economy. Some speakers also compared similar processes in Asia and Latin America with the Russian reality.