MOSCOW, May 10 (RIA Novosti) - President Vladimir Putin ordered the government Wednesday during his state of the nation address to intensify work to create aircraft- and shipbuilding holdings in Russia in a bid to improve their competitiveness.
"The restructuring of such crucial industries like aircraft- and shipbuilding has been under consideration for an unjustifiably long time," Putin said. "The government must intensify work and at last accomplish the objective of establishing the holdings."
