OREANDA-NEWS. May 26, 2009. The Government of Russia hopes that Siemens and Rosatom will be able to build an effective partnership and is ready to support their joint projects, Vice Premier of Russia Sergey Sobyanin said while visiting Siemens’s stand at Atomexpo 2009 exhibition in Moscow on May 26 2009.

“The Government of Russia supports all the projects you are going to implement jointly with Rosatom,” Sobyanin said while speaking with Siemens Energy CEO Michael Suss. “I am sure that you will not regret that you have established cooperation with us. Russia is a huge energy market and a good site for new international projects,” Sobyanin said.

Director General of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation Sergey Kiriyenko said that the companies had made progress in their negotiations. Suss said that they might have gone even farther were it not for their former partnerships. To remind, before the start of the talks with Rosatom Siemens exercised its right and prematurely seceded from its alliance with French Areva.

Suss said that he was glad at the chance to work in Russia. In a certain sense Siemens is a Russian company as it has worked in Russia for over 150 years and one of the key tasks of the founders of Siemens was to work on the Russian market. “So, we are going back to our roots,” Suss said.

“It is excellent that we work in almost all technological fields. Our market needs it,” Sobyanin said. To have modern technologies is one of the key goals of Russia’s energy market. “Today, in the face of the crisis, the energy consumption in Russia is declining but I am sure that the crisis times will pass and the demand for energy will grow to an even higher level. Our machine building industry must be ready for this breakthrough,” Sobyanin said.