Meeting on development of basic settlements of the Arctic zone

Vladimir Putin: Dear colleagues, good afternoon! We will discuss today questions of development of the Arctic. And first of all it will be a question of questions of quality of life of people, of modern shape and the future of our northern cities and settlements – as new, founded in the XX century, and the cities with centuries-old history. All of them, certainly, are symbols, an embodiment of huge will, an enormous role, it is possible to tell, impudences, work, courage of many generations of our ancestors and our contemporaries, certainly, too which mastered and master the North. Today million people live here, work, establish families, raise children...