Russia: Putin briefed on increased investment in Moscow infracture by Mayor Sobynanin

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin in Moscow, Monday. During the working meeting President Putin defined the Russian capital as the country's "heart in all senses of the word, the political heart, and the economic heart." Sobyanin briefed the president on growing levels of investment in the city, which he said had, "increased by 50 percent over the last five years." Adding that his administration had "feared that investment would rapidly decline, but this has not happened and the latest results for the first nine months of 2015 show that overall investment volumes are not dropping." Regarding the city's transport situation, Sobyanin said that city managers had added, "dozens of kilometres" to existing rail networks and "around 400 kilometres of new roads, flyovers and exchanges" to road transport infrastructure.