Putin: Russian authorities should use domestically produced cars.
According to Tass, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a meeting with senior executive managers of the country’s industrial production, asked Russian government officials to use Russian-made vehicles for transportation.
In this meeting, Putin emphasized: Ministers, organizations and offices of the presidential staff have asked to continue the purchase of foreign-made cars and to continue this procedure.
He added: However, in response, I said that such a thing is completely unacceptable and that all Russian officials should use domestically made cars.
According to the President of Russia, “These cars, in some ways, are perhaps simpler than the cars we used in the past. It is not an important issue. Instead, it happens to be better. “Our officials are wonderful people and they must understand that we have to work hard to develop domestic car brands as well as other domestically made products and goods.”
He also stated: This path should be the main path to improve living standards.
Earlier, Denis Mantorov, the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, said that the products made in Moscow are currently sold in 78 countries. Since the beginning of Russia’s military operations in Ukraine in early February 2022, Western countries have tried to put pressure on Moscow while imposing extensive sanctions in all areas, including the economy, and it was expected that Moscow’s economy would enter a recession under the influence of comprehensive Western sanctions, but the statistics It tells about the economic stability of this country.
In fact, according to World Bank data and statistical information analyzed by Sputnik, in 2022 Russia will return to the world’s top 10 economies for the first time since 2022, with the production of goods and services worth 2.3 trillion dollars. 2014 has also reached the eighth place in this ranking.
