Mishustin and Li Qiang begin talks at St Petersburg’s Presidential Library

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Chinese Premier Li Qiang have begun talks in St Petersburg, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.

The restricted-format meeting is taking place at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. Li arrived in the city the previous day for the 31st regular meeting between the heads of government of Russia and China.

The Russian participants include Deputy Prime Ministers Tatyana Golikova, Alexander Novak and Dmitry Chernyshenko, ministers Maxim Reshetnikov, Valery Falkov and Alexey Chekunkov, and financial monitoring chief Yury Chikhanchin.

The delegation also includes Russia’s ambassador to China Igor Morgulov, deputy government chief of staff Elmir Tagirov, deputy ministers Igor Rudenko, Alexey Gruzdev and Alexey Sazanov, and Bank of Russia First Deputy Governor Vladimir Chistyukhin.