Do ut des Russia-Eurozone. Moscow will help countries involved in the debt crisis, but in return he claims to get “a better status” within the “International Monetary Fund and other similar structures”. Vladimir Putin I don't like mincing words too much. The Russian prime minister has made it known that he expects a specific counterpart in exchange for the effort "recently" promised by "President Dmitri Medvedev at the G20 meeting".
From St. Petersburg, where he was for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization forum, Putin specified that "taking part in this joint work through the IMF instruments" is "in our interest" to minimize the problems in the eurozone.
Meanwhile, the president of the Washington-based institution, Christine Lagarde, had words of appreciation for Russia's forthcoming entry into the World Trade Organization, which should be finalized by December 15, calling it a "very vibrant and significant message".
Furthermore, "if Russia fully meets the requirements of the WTO" it will mean that there can be no "major objections on other levels". A step forward whose importance is evident both "from an economic and also a political point of view".
