To improve the market competitiveness of the ruble we will have to form its international reputation.

Many events became an unpleasant surprise, they pulled off the veil of illusions from the eyes: these were inactivity of authorities during the disaster in Krymsk and corruption scandals, which spilled through the country one after another, and the revealed ineffectiveness of many higher education institutions.

Russia made a serious compromise on decisionmaking in the Eurasian Economic Commission (“one country — one vote”), despite the obvious difference in economies, size of territory and population.