Russia: Putin meets Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO Kirill Dmitriev

Russian President Vlаdimir Putin met with the head of Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss the fund's activities. "We continue investing actively, the fund has positive profitability despite the decline in some indexes and we attracted 25 billion dollars to collaborative partnership from principal partners and 90% of them are from Asia and Middle East," Dmitriev told Putin. "We have just signed the agreement in Ufa with all the BRICS countries on investing in infrastructure in collaboration with the principal funds of BRICS including Silk Road development fund," Dmitriev stated, adding that "the Silk Road development fund is becoming one of our principal partners in China and it is true that Asian partners really believe in joint projects and we work with them actively and with pleasure."