Nikitin elected Director of Agency for Strategic Initiatives.

MOSCOW, July 28 (Itar-Tass) -- Andrei Nikitin was elected Director of
Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) on Wednesday, July 27, Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with members of the ASI Expert
Council.
Nikitin is the Director-General of the management company Ruskompozit.
Artyom Avetisyan, President of the consulting group NEO Centre, has
become Director responsible for New Business.
Dmitry Peskov, Director-General of the project company Metaver, will
oversee Young Professionals, and Vladimir Yablonsky, Director of the
Training and Methodological Centre for Information and Analytical Work,
will be in charge of Social Projects.
"I am sure that you will organise the work of the agency properly,"
Putin said.
He also expressed hope that the Agency would become "a substantial,
noticeable and effective tool for advancing innovations and for constant
movement forward".
"I am confident that we will succeed. What is important is that all of
you have the drive and audacity, readiness and ability to be successful,"
the prime minister said.
He stressed that the Agency's activities should be "bright and
multifaceted, change existing algorithms of work, break rigidity,
stereotypes and barriers that still abound".