Putin - at the first meeting with the Security Council after personnel changes:

Putin - at the first meeting with the Security Council after personnel changes: “Now we will talk on a topic that is always a priority for us in the foreign sphere - building relations with our closest neighbors, with the independent states formed in the post-Soviet space. The Minister of Finance and I talked about the fact that in Russia’s new political cycle we should pay even more attention to this and talk about how we will build this work from all points of view, including organizational.” Source: Russian Head