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The world has come around from a crisis and is beginning to recover, said Anatoly Chubais the head of the Russian state corporation Russian Nanotechnologies (Rusnano).

"The world has come to. It’s beginning to recover. It has realized that it is alive and that it should change considerably, but it has not yet understood how," Chubais told journalists on the sidelines of the Davos economic forum.

He said he was convinced that, after overcoming the crisis, the global economy will become more efficient.

"The world will be building more modern and more flexible institutions. The world will become more efficient and less costly. The world will become more competitive, and so on," he said.

"In this sense, the main question for us is this: What can we offer? Gas? Excellent. And fifteen years from now? More gas? Excellent. And forty years from now?" Chubais said.

He pointed out that 80% of Russian exports are "gas, oil, and metals." "Everybody has survived. Yes, there was some shock, but it is basically clear now how everything will develop," Chubais said. "Nobody is going to wait for us," he added.

"We [Rusnano] are in the core of what is to be done in this context," he said.

Rusnano plans to increase the sales of nanotechnological products to 900 billion rubles by 2015, Chubais said. "This is probably a minimum possible goal, and we need to move energetically toward it," he said.