TOMSK, April 27 (RIA Novosti) - President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that economic cooperation with the West, including in the energy sector, should be carried out on equal terms.
"We constantly hear about some threat of dependence on Russia and that Russian companies should have limited access to the energy market," Putin told a news conference in the West Siberian oil city of Tomsk, where he is meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"When [people] come to us, it is called investment and globalization, and when we plan to enter [other markets], it is already referred to as expansion," Putin said. "We must agree on common rules of the game."
