(Background) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attending the ceremony of signing a tripartite agreement on setting up a joint Russian-German venture in the sphere of transport engineering. Foreground, from left: Siegfried Russwurm, member of the Siemens AG managing board, Vladimir Yakunin, president of the Russian Railways Company, and Dmitry Pumpyansky, president of the Sinara Group, July 16, 2009.