“All the best!”: The President of the Russian Federation wished good luck to foreign companies leaving the Russian market
Russian President Vladimir Putin wished good luck to foreign companies leaving the Russian market. He noted that they had suffered serious losses because of their decision.
The head of state spoke about this at a meeting of the Supervisory Board of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI).
He wished all the best to Western brands that stopped working on Russian territory, noting that many of them did so under pressure from the authorities of their countries. But these decisions were taken by the management of the companies independently.
Many of them do it without any pleasure
- noted the president.
Of course, the departure of representatives of Western business from Russia was not painless for them, because foreign entrepreneurs turned off an established business in our country, in which a lot of effort and money were often invested. As Putin noted, many of them put their souls into developing their business in Russia. And now they have to turn everything around.
The President recalled how some politicians and experts predicted that the withdrawal of Western companies from the Russian market would be a disaster for our country, but their predictions did not come true, as the vacated niches began to be occupied by domestic manufacturers.
The strengthening of anti-Russian sanctions by Western states occurred last year, immediately after the start of a special operation in Ukraine. One of the forms of pressure on Russia was the withdrawal of foreign brands from our country. In addition, there was a freeze of the assets of the Russian Federation, placed abroad.
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