A man on an escalator. File photo MOSCOW, June 29 Western companies operating in Russia and experiencing enormous political pressure from Washington and Brussels, as well as their governments, today prefer to act quietly, the vice president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) Sergei Krasilnikov.
"Sanctions are sanctions, but none of the business people of the West wants to leave our market. I will say this, if Western companies can not leave Russia, they do not leave, although they are under the most severe political pressure from Washington, Brussels, their governments, finally. <…> So that Uncle Sam does not shake his finger at them from across the ocean, Western business currently prefers to act quietly in Russia, not particularly advertising its activities,» he said.
According to the expert, it comes to comedy.» Let me tell you a secret, many leaders of Western companies, despite all the prohibitions, nevertheless came to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, but they behaved there with extreme resorted to disguise — wigs, masks, raincoats! Krasilnikov noted. There is a «witch hunt» going on in the West today,» the agency's interlocutor emphasized. lists, up to dismissal, as they say,» the RUIE vice-president concluded. Russia with import substitution