A Russian Nobel Prize winner will become...

Zhores Alferov, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000, will co-chair the scientific council overseeing the project alongside a foreign expert, said Vladislav Surkov, the first deputy head of the presidential administration.

The respected business daily Vedomosti added that Alferov confirmed via an aide that he had met with Surkov, but had no comment on his possible appointment.

If confirmed, Alferov"s appointment would be the first step towards a key goal of the project - attracting the best minds in the world to work in Russia"s high-technology sector.

"I think that if in the final analysis there are not two, three, four Nobel Prize laureates working in this city, it would mean we did not achieve our goal," Surkov said in a March 21 interview with Rossiya TV.

A member of the Russian Academy of Sciences who set up a nanotechnology center with St. Petersburg university, Alferov has been active in politics since 1989 and currently serves as a Communist

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