The Russian Ambassador to Canada says Windsor is a place his country might want to do business in.
Ambassador Alexander Darchiev stopped in to participate in the Victory in Europe commemoration with members of Windsor's Russian community at The Art Gallery of Windsor Saturday.
Darchiev arrived in Windsor for the weekend. He spent the day Friday touring the Chrysler Minivan plant on Tecumseh Rd. E and Drouillard Rd. with Mayor Drew Dilkens.
An experience Darchiev described as, "impressive."
"It's my first time in Windsor, in this part of Ontario and I'm very happy to be here. We're looking at exploring opportunities for having more ties, more regional ties, more business ties with regions of Russia," Darchiev says. "Windsor has a great innovation potential. In Russia we also have a high tech experts, so this might be a real venue for having economic business ties."
Building ties economically is something Darchiev says bonds governments at higher levels.
"I think we have a good prospect when we have more contacts between people, between businesses. We could create ways to potential on a grass root level for having better relations on higher levels between Russia and Canada," he says.
Darchiev says he and Mayor Dilkens discussed the idea of arranging a sister city in Russia in the near future.