27 january 2009

Vladimir Putin gave an interview to Bloomberg news agency

Vladimir Putin

Interview to Bloomberg news agency

Participants:
"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."