Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to Switzerland
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a news conference on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, on January 29, 2009, the second day of his visit to Switzerland, for members of the International Business Council and the International Media Council. He also met with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Mongolian President Nambariin Enkhbayar, and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
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Prime minister Vladimir Putin's visit to Switzerland
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Switzerland to take part in the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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Vladimir Putin gave an interview to Bloomberg news agency
"True, we have made economic diversification our goal only recently. On the whole, I think we have taken the right road and are reaching our targets at a fairly good pace. The global financial and economic crisis is helping us, in a sense, because it forces us to be more rational, implement new technologies (energy saving, for example), upgrade production and retrain the personnel."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Government Presidium
"Rosagroleasing capital is also increasing by 25 billion roubles, as agreed before. A greater part of the sum will go toward purchasing farm machines and vehicles, as we have intended, thus increasing sales of Russian-manufactured machinery."
