s he's actually been talking to dell siemens and sony those are the companies that had a chance to before he went to the stage for a little later in the day and originally the russian president was going to be meeting european leaders and attend. roundtable discussions before the launch of this forum but as you may understand these plans were disrupted by the terror attack on the world about an airport. just operation which occurred on monday and of course delayed the russian president getting to the form. of the deputy prime minister who oversaw actually the russians. the russian bid for the world cup in twenty eighteen he was there representing the president and he led the initial russian delegation to that was. that every is no stranger to this forum he's previously attended the the forum when he worked in the russian government and enjoyed informal access to business leaders and policy makers for russian companies it is timely because they're issuing i.p.o.'s in the next month we expect a total of one point five billion dollars so now let's listen to the president of russia has he add