MOSCOW, September 18 Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday he will congratulate Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on his inauguration and hold a meeting with the government’s economic bloc, the Russian leader’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
The Moscow mayoral elections were held from September 8 to 10. According to the final results, Sobyanin received 76.39% of the votes, 2,499,114 people voted for him. The final turnout in the elections was 42.5%.
«Putin is in Moscow, today is a Kremlin working day. Of course, the president will congratulate Moscow Mayor Sobyanin on his inauguration. There will be his speech. And then in the Kremlin a number of meetings and meetings are planned of a working nature, one of the meetings will be with the economic bloc of the government, with the leadership administration. This meeting is part of a series of economic meetings that the president holds quite regularly,» Peskov said.
He clarified that this time “we will talk about the budget process.”