Биржевой форум_пленарное заседание

Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to the Exchange Forum, already the fifth, the fifth to take place that is, rather than the fifth best, because every preceding forum, and each one which follows, is important. It's always relevant, it's always interesting. And with this edition we have a record: More than 1500 people signed up to the forum. As many are aware we unfortunately had to stop registrations a couple of days ago. This was in response to high levels of interest in the forum, partly a result of the current situation and so on.

Of course it's important. Lowering inflation, this principal objective which I mentioned, is, of course, important, especially during this phase of economic growth, when we need "long money", when we need investments. That will not happen under high inflation. Our contribution to encouraging investment-based growth is to reduce inflation. Thus increasing investments. And so we will act on the presumption that, where reduced inflation is concerned, economic bodies, especially those, which are not now actively involved in foreign trade operations, will have some relief with respect to the exchange rate.