GORKI - Russia does not aim to phase out of all imports, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting on April 3.
“No one is setting the task of replacing all imports completely. This is impossible and the opposite extreme,” he said at the meeting, which was devoted to the question of doing away with imports in Russia.
The level of state support for foreign producers is often much higher than for domestic producers, Medvedev added.
“The countries that opened up their markets without any conditions – and these kinds of countries exist among our close partners as well – oftentimes lose entire sectors of their national economies,” he said, adding that this happened to a certain extent in Russia in the 1990s. “The situation in certain fields is still extremely difficult,” Medvedev said.
