Young scientists have showcased domestically produced equipment at an exhibit in Sochi
The Russian economy has successfully overcome the “addiction” to Western technologies and is developing a competitive domestic market, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
During a meeting with participants in the 3rd Congress of Young Scientists in Sochi, Putin commented on the ‘Our Lab’ exhibition of scientific equipment produced in Russia.
“Our so-called partners believed that they had hooked us on a technological needle and we would never get off,” Putin told the scientists. “Thanks to the efforts of people like you and your colleagues, it turned out that this could be done – and quite quickly, too.”
Russian researchers used to buy their equipment abroad, but have since turned to domestically produced alternatives, in part due to the embargo imposed by the US and its allies over the Ukraine conflict.