Putin : China's Belt and Road Initiative is perfectly compatible.

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Sat, Dec 16, 2017, 01:59 AM

Putin : China Belt and Road Initiative is perfectly compatible.

Moscow, Dec 15: Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual end-of-year news conference in Moscow repeated that China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is perfectly compatible.

Putin said that it can be included with the development of the Eurasian Economic Union and Russia's proposals on a broad partnership in Asia.

Underlining the bilateral ties of China and Russia, Putin mentioned that the two countries will remain strategic partners in the coming years for a very long time, irrespective of the result of the Russian presidential election, according to a Xinhua news agency report.

The upper house of the Russian parliament voted on Friday to set March 18 as the date of 2018's presidential election. The forthcoming election is due on March 18, 2018 and Putin is widely expected to win his fourth term.

The Russian presidential election has taken an interesting turn with its newest presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak who is the daughter of Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak who was Putin's political mentor.