Putin jokes: You can buy your own ice cream!

At the MAKS Air Show, President Vladimir Putin joked with the CEO of Rostech Technologies, Sergey Chemezov, that ’he can afford his own ice cream’. The company is a state corporation established in late 2007 to promote development, production and export of hi-tech industrial products for civil and defense sectors. Chemezov is CEO of Rostech Corporation, Chairman of the Union of Russian Mechanical Engineers, and a lieutenant-general of the Russian armed forces. Stealing the show this year was the MiG-35 fighter jet, a classified 4 generation. The multifunctional fighter jet has enhanced maneuverability and is designed to overcome large-scale air defence systems. The jet will reportedly be taken into the service of the Russian armed forces in 2018.