Medvedev takes Schwarzenegger to high-tech hub near Moscow

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev took California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on a visit to Russia's high-tech research hub outside Moscow on October 11.

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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger arrived in Moscow at the head of a delegation of high-tech executives and venture businessmen on October 10.

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Medvedev and Schwarzenegger met on October 11 in the Russian leader's Moscow Region residence in Gorki before setting off for Russia's high-tech research hub of Skolkovo outside the capital.

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Schwarzenegger, who played hard-jawed Soviet narc Ivan Danko in a 1988 film Red Heat, said he never thought he would visit the Russian capital as the governor of California.

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Medvedev said he could offer Schwarzenegger the post of Moscow's mayor if he had Russian citizenship.

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"We have many different events here. You arrived at the moment when Moscow has no mayor," the Russian president told the American guest.

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Medvedev and the California governor set off for Skolkovo, dubbed Russia's Silicon Valley, after the meeting at Gorki.

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Medvedev drove Schwarzenegger to Skolkovo in his vintage car, a Soviet-made, cream-colored Chaika designed in the 1950s.

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Medvedev told Schwarzenegger about the Chaika concept.

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In Skolkovo Medvedev and Schwarzenegger joined the participants of a Russian-U.S. forum dedicated to global partnership in the field of innovations.

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Schwarzenegger said he was impressed by Medvedev's enthusiasm for developing innovative and "green" technologies.

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Schwarzenegger praised Russia as a "gold mine" for foreign investors.

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Schwarzenegger said he ready to assist Russia's hi-tech development.