MOSCOW, July 7 Russian companies are happy about the departure of foreign colleagues from the domestic market, they take their places and feel comfortable in the new business, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.
«Those Russian companies, businessmen who occupy the place vacated after the departure of foreign companies, including Finnish companies, in the Russian market, they will not agree: they welcome the departure of foreign companies and feel quite comfortable and happy in the new business,» he said. , commenting to journalists on the statements of Finnish President Sauli Niinistö about the withdrawal of Finnish business from Russia.
«We do not consider ourselves in the right to give advice to the President of Finland, who was elected by the people of Finland. The people (of Finland), who are close and with whom we are united by a very good past,» Peskov said, answering a question from journalists whether it is necessary to give advice to the Finnish president and companies that have left the Russian market.
Earlier, Niinistö, in an interview with the French edition of Monde, said that although absolutely all Finnish companies left the Russian market, this did not give any result. According to him, although sanctions against Russia were introduced much more than in 2014, their effectiveness is low due to the existence of various ways to circumvent them, as well as the maintenance of trade relations with Russia by many countries outside Europe.
The Russian Federation has repeatedly stated that the country will cope with the sanctions pressure that the West began to exert on Russia several years ago and continues to increase. Moscow noted that the West lacks the courage to acknowledge the failure of sanctions against the Russian Federation. In the Western countries themselves, opinions have been heard more than once that anti-Russian sanctions are ineffective. Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously stated that the policy of containment and weakening of Russia is a long-term strategy of the West, and sanctions have dealt a serious blow to the entire global economy. According to him, the main goal of the West is to worsen the lives of millions of people.