By Prensa Latina
Moscow : Russian President Vladimir Putin sustained Thursday in press conference at the Kremlin that corruption is the problem that has most worried him through eight years in power.
The president made the statement when interviewed during the seventh successive annual meeting with representatives of local and foreign media.
Addressing 1,364 journalists, 200 of them foreigners, Putin ratified a recent command by the Russian leader of the Federal Security Service to reinforce surveillance of economic activities, and the anticorruption fight.
In an address to chiefs and officers of that armed body, the president recalled that a large amount of resources will be invested in the construction sector and to improve housing.
“All that calls for higher economic security,” Putin emphasized, and oriented to use the Service operative capacities to get to the bottom of sophisticated robbery schemes of budgetary and state funds.