Putin Wants Positive Approach to Cyprus Loan Bid, Politis Says
By Stelios Orphanides -
2012-06-28T11:33:31Z
President Vladimir Putin instructed the Russian Finance Ministry to take a positive approach to a request from Cyprus for a loan of 5 billion euros ($6.2 billion), Politis reported.
The Russian leader also told the ministry to review Cyprus’s request as soon as possible, the Nicosia-based newspaper reported today without saying where it got the information.
Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, declined to comment on the report when contacted by Bloomberg News.
To contact the reporters on this story: Stelios Orphanides in Nicosia at sorphanides@bloomberg.net;
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Craig Stirling at cstirling1@bloomberg.net
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