"Italy is a country of the European Union, a NATO country with which we have the closest and most trusting relations. We have always counted - and we were not mistaken - on your country's support for our dialogue with Europe and the North Atlantic Alliance. However, our bilateral relations are also developing successfully: trade is growing and our relations are becoming increasingly diversified."

"We propose to make a list of priorities and use it to extend larger subsidies to regional budgets. The regions will have more freedom to choose how to use that funding so that Moscow officials do not tell the Governors the heads of regions how they should spend the money."

As a result of the talks between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the Secretary-General of the National Security Council of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Prince Bandar al-Saud, an agreement on military-technical cooperation was signed between Russia and Saudi Arabia.