is a great place to invest but obvious putting their money where their mouth is correspondent nicholas poole asked businessman why investment volumes don't always keep up with expectations. talking some of the delegates here you get the impression that russia is one of the golden children of the world economy along with its bric kobolds brazil if you're in china speaking with the presidents of such heavyweights as john deere and boeing they see tremendous growth potential here given the changes the be made in recent years ten years ago i could come up with a number of things that we want to see it through quite frankly we've seen a lot of improvement over last ten years i think that the real issue for us is that we know we can count on the russian manufacturers to provide us what we need say ten years ago there's a lot of risky business here not today. for mr putin set the tone in his keynote address on improving the investment climate in russia expired at the virtues of russia saying it's because true the crisis in some style but it also photo ground for investors but there's one big proble

prime minister vladimir putin's speech was one of the key events of the first day of the forum nicholas pool was listening in and he brings us this assessment from sochi. there's a palpable sense of optimism here at the sochi economic forum it's slightly smaller than the last year with five thousand delegates attending their representatives from companies both foreign and domestic the themes of the forum was set during the prime minister putin schemed of stress on the challenges of modernization and improving the investment climate the highlights of his message was that russia often photo ground for investors both big and small but she's going to make it up as normal the russian economy is still not spoiled by the attention of investors neither foreign nor local ones the russian business climate is claimed to have problems with and sometimes these claims are justified sometimes not we know our problems really well and we will solve them the key factor for the russian government will be a measured and rather conservative macroeconomic policy. the optimism about the prospects for the economy w

nicholas pool reports from the city is new in the open to air force. the newly refurbished sochi airport is open it's the first to be a limp it projects to become operational at a cost of just two hundred million dollars it represents just a fraction of the ward work going on for the olympics the company behind the development displays all error there are passages basic element which is involved in a number of other projects there as well including waste disposal a new seaport in the olympic village the airport is coming on time and on budget it is awful basal aero explains the project has a number of advantages over all the so it's in and around sochi first of all we didn't construct the building itself which we need to move the concrete and the salmon and. the sand and all the heavy material so we were not effectively using ropes too much. with a group. we fortunately delivered the most of it before the second construction phase started around us so we didn't expect this many difficulties but the other sites i believe were experiencing. the opening o

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