March 19, 2014,  the opening  of the project "Italian machinery and equipment in Russia»  (Machines Italia in Moscow) was held in Moscow. The aim of the project is to promote the Italian technological advances and to  support Italian companies in their work on the Russian market. In particular, we are talking about the supply of machinery and equipment within the technological and commercial partnerships with Russian companies on the basis of closer contacts with government and commercial entities.

The event was opened by the  speech of the Ambassador of Italy in Russia Cesare Maria Ragalini. The Ambassador emphasized  the importance of establishing and developing business relationships and a strong partnership between Italy and Russia: "In the most difficult moments of our bilateral relations, we have done everything to ensure that these relations developed successfully. Now we are going through a difficult moment, but as I said, we will overcome this as well. Italy was in Russia and it will be tomorrow. "

The event was attended by representatives of the Ministries of Economic Development of Italy and Russia, Russian leaders Federmacchine industry associations and unions, Russian and Italian large industrial groups, and representatives of specialized business media.  The Chairman of the MCCI Comission  on international  trade  cooperation with partners in  Italian Republic Mr.  Konstantin   Krokhin  was  interviewed  by RBC-TV, in his speech he emphasized that the Russian market is the direction of preserving  technological capacity of Italy. Mr. Krokhin  also noted that currently exists  an unique situation for the expansion of bilateral cooperation in the field of production and trade, as Italy has a high level of technology development and production of culture, and Russia needs to modernize the production sector.

Currently, Italy is  one of the main economic partners of Russia. Annual trade between the countries is more than 45 billion euros. The main area of ​​cooperation - the high technology manufacturing and engineering.

The video footage of the event and interviews of Konstantin Krokhin