MOSCOW, March 18. /TASS/. Arkady Dvorkovich made the decision to terminate his powers in the office of the Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation, the Foundation says on its website on Friday.

"Arkady Dvorkovich decided to terminate powers of the Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation and focus on development of educational projects, including within the ‘Greater Skolkovo’ framework," the Foundation says.

Dvorkovich commended colleagues for smooth work. "Skolkovo helped development of plenty of successful startups in key technology areas - from security to education, from healthcare to energy. Skolkovo has always been at the cutting edge of innovations in Russia and at present, I am confident, will endeavor to build up competitive economy in our country, becoming the main technology hub that will assume support of technology needs of the country," Dvorkovich said, cited by the Foundation.