Boris Paton

President of the National academy of sciences of Ukraine, academician Boris Paton during the V Forum of Creative and Academic Intelligentsia of the CIS Member States, in Moscow (Russia), on Thursday, October 14, 2010. The forum's theme is Innovative and Humanitarian Partnership: the Basis for Dynamic Development of CIS States. The President noted in his address that modernisation is a common priority for the Commonwealth states. Dmitry Medvedev called on the forum’s participants to restore the broken production chains, find new areas of cooperation and launch new industrial and economic entities and new joint projects based on modern technologies. V Forum of Creative and Academic Intelligentsia of the CIS Member States was organised with the support of the Council for Humanitarian Cooperation and the CIS Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation. The forum was attended by over 500 delegates from all Commonwealth states, including about 200 representatives of creative young professionals. Photo by Dmitriy Vadim / UNIAN