Commenting on the deal, German Gref, CEO of Sberbank, which is acting as the deal's financial guarantor, called the Opel acquisition a rare business opportunity for Russia to acquire one of Europe's most technologically advanced automakers on the cheap...
Both Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Norwegian counterpart, Jens Stoltenberg, were forced at their press conference on the results of their bilateral talks in Moscow to devote more time to explaining their stances on the dispute as the press repeatedly peppered them with questions on the issue...
Assessing the results of the two-day visit at a final press conference in Tokyo, Russian and Japanese prime ministers noted their governments' readiness to raise the current state of the Russian-Japanese relationships to a much higher level...