In December, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev criticized Rosneft, the state run company that owns the world's largest oil and gas reserves, for spending only of its revenues on research and development.
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That is how the trio founded Tresalia ("tres aliadas" or three allies) and started investing in sectors with high growth potential such as technology infrastructure, telecommunications, real estate development and land reserves.
The expert working group will begin with the perspective that geological resources are an important element of development and that biosphere reserves are much more than just protected areas.
Taking into consideration the complexity of museum-reserves and their role in the development of cultural and ecological tourism, during the Thematic Regional Training the following issues were discussed: improvement of cooperation forms between museum-reserves in CIS countries, effective use of museum-reserves and the role of museum-reserves as factors of regional economic development.