Putin: the campus development program in Russia should be extended. The head of state said this during a meeting on the creation of a network of modern campuses in Russia.

Putin pointed to the importance of changing the environment in which future researchers, engineers and other specialists live and work. On February 1, Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin took part in the opening of the new complex of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University. The new complex is part of a larger project to build new universities across Russia.