Russian President thinks that businessmen, while realizing their commercial projects, should respect the feelings of believers

President Vladimir V. Putin advised businessmen to respect the interests of religious associations of the country and not to undertake commercial projects that could offend the feelings of believers, ITAR-TASS reports. The leader of the state was asked at the news conference held in the Kremlin on 31 January 2006 about his attitude to the attempts of business structures to take away a part of a church representation in Sokolniki and use it as a casino. Putin described these actions as erroneous.

Putin underscored that ‘there is nothing good in that. I am confident that gambling business develops rapidly because of large profit. It is not necessarily to adapt certain premises to solve their tasks, especially in the sphere of gambling.’