Developing domestic brands must be of the utmost importance, the president has said
Russian officials should swap their internationally produced cars for domestic brands to give the country’s industry a boost, President Vladimir Putin has proposed.
Speaking at a meeting with leaders of Russia’s manufacturing industries on Thursday, Putin revealed several ministries and other government agencies had asked him to continue procuring foreign cars for administrative use.
“I told them that this is absolutely out of the question. All officials in the country should use domestically produced cars,” the president insisted.
While recognizing that, in some respects, Russian cars might be “more modest” than their international competitors, Putin noted that this was “not a big deal, on the contrary, it is even better this way.”
“All of our magnificent officials must understand that we must strive for the development of domestic brands and…