Kremlin does not rule out contact between Putin, Musk

MOSCOW, December 17. /TASS/. The Kremlin hopes the Russian market will be of interest for CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors Elon Musk and contact with President Vladimir Putin is not excluded in such a case, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday. "Certainly, the President is open to communication with foreign businessmen, entrepreneurs, visionaries; he regularly communicates with them," the Kremlin’s spokesman said, responding to a question whether Putin is interested in talking with Musk. The Russian leader "has regular, actually annual communication with businessmen - the French, the Germans, with those having a broad presence on the Russian market," he noted. "Elon Musk does not have a presence on our market but we hope this market will also become interesting for him over time and then we do not exclude communications with the President," Peskov added. Read more