Putin believes that the VEB has worked well

The Russian government, in general, positive about the outcome of last year's State Corporation "Bank for Development" (EBV). This was stated today by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Supervisory Board. Financial support VEB helped start the implementation of 24 projects in energy, transport, agriculture and other industries. VEB launched a program to support the mortgage in the amount of 250 billion rubles, as well as severely - by 40 billion rubles - expanded the scope of lending to small and medium-sized businesses, "- said the prime minister. "Portfolio investment loans (VEB - Ed.) For 2009 grew by 77% - up to 230 billion rubles," - said the prime minister. The Prime Minister emphasized that EBV in 2010, the focus should be given to the training of new investment projects. "Some of them we will discuss today," - said Putin.