Russia’s President Vladimir Putin met with representatives of the foreign business community as part of the Eastern Economic Forum on September 6, 2017.

According to the chairman of the Russian-German foreign trade chamber Matthias Schepp, foreign businesses spoke to the Russian President about various investment projects in the Far East.

“We discussed very different subjects. Generally, representatives of the Asian countries talked about investment projects to be implemented in the Russian Far East,” Mr. Shepp said, noting that the Far East will allow European and Asian businesses to cooperate.

As Mr. Shepp said, the Russian leader emphasized that the Russian economy was not in a bad shape, with the lowest inflation following the disintegration of the Soviet Union and with resuming GDP growth.  

The Eastern Economic Forum was held in Vladivostok for the third time this year from September 6 through the 7th. Vladimir Putin was among the forum’s high-level guests, as was the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe and the President of South Korea Moon Jae-in.