“Israel is one of Russia’s priority partners in the Middle East. We have also developed friendly relations over the past decades. We certainly value our contact and plan to continue promoting it.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Roman Kopin, the Governor of the Chukotka Autonomous Area
At the meeting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Roman Kopin, the Governor of the Chukotka Autonomous Area, discussed the social and economic situation in the region.
At the meeting, Mr Putin and Mr Mordashov discussed Severstal’s results for the year.
Special TV programme “Conversation with Vladimir Putin: To Be Continued”
"It can be said with a fair degree of certainty that the peak of the crisis is past, although turbulence in the world economy and, as a consequence, in the Russian economy is still there. It will take time, effort and considerable resources to get out of the crisis. On the whole, however, positive trends are making themselves felt and are clearly manifested."
"This time, as you may have noticed, we changed the session’s format. Reporters travelled to places that I have visited this year for one reason or another. In that sense, today’s session was more focused on current issues of production in industry, we tried to look at the developments in different sectors of industry, and at those companies I visited this year, to see how my instructions aimed at stabilising them are being implemented. From that perspective, I found today’s event particularly useful and interesting."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Jacques Rogge focused on current issues of construction of Olympic facilities for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.