President Vladimir Putin met at the Kremlin with President of the World Jewish Congress Ronald Lauder

Moscow: President Vladimir Putin met at the Kremlin with President of the World Jewish Congress Ronald Lauder.

President of Russia said while welcoming Ronald Lauder at the Kremlin, it is a great pleasure to welcome you to Moscow. We met already in 2003. The World Jewish Congress is a very well-known and influential international non-governmental organisation.

As far as I know, the organisation has existed for 80 years now and you do a lot to provide religious and secular support to Jews all around the world.

As you know, we here in Russia have very close and regular contacts with not only Russian Jewish organisations, but European ones too.

Russia’s Jewish organisations make a big contribution to our internal stabilisation, and we are very grateful to our friends for this.