But the days of coasting on Soviet-era infrastructure are over, as output declines from fields first tapped in the 1970s.
Current network infrastructures are over-provisioned to increase their resilience against resource failures.
These are a big problem, especially in London, where parts of the infrastructure are over 150 years old.
Mr. Medvedev acknowledged the continuing troubles on Monday, telling lawmakers that the days of relying on once impressive Soviet athletic infrastructure were over.
The city's water infrastructure was over 100 years old, and after the end of each winter, once-frozen pipes thawed out, water mains would break, wasting hundreds of thousands of gallons of water.
* Capital investment in infrastructure is to total £5 billion over two years, including £1 billion for roads, upgrading the A1, A30, and M25.
At its most basic level, the struggle over the infrastructure is a fight over money.
From January through April, fixed asset investment by the state-owned sector soared 39.3% from the same time last year, mostly in infrastructure rather than manufacturing, which is over-capacity.
It is no surprise that neither report mentions far better ways of raising or saving money for the NHS: £10bn a year could be saved by ending the market in the English NHS, many more by tackling the PFI debts emptying taxpayers' money into share holders' pockets – £11bn of infrastructure is costing us over £60bn to fund.
The veterinary infrastructure is thinly spread over a wide area as there are currently 144 Centres Zootechniques et de Contrôle de Sante Vétérinaire (CSV) in the far north region (>34,000 km2).
