“(Forum. - RT ) attracts investments, gives us the opportunity to reveal to the potential investors, both Russian and foreign friends and partners, the opportunities of the region, develops it,” Putin quotes TASS.

Earlier, the President of Russia at the WEF plenary meeting said that he admits the arrival of foreign investors in strategic enterprises of the Far East.

Oksana Bondar, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Regional Policy and Problems of the North and the Far East, spoke about the importance of the Eastern Economic Forum for Russia in an interview with PolitExpert.