'Macbook killer' and obsolete electric car: how Russia tries to 'import substitute' Western goods, but fails

Under the sanctions, Russia lost not only Apple stores and access to streaming services, but also the Taiwanese chips that it passed off as its own. Russian “import-substituting” technologies usually raise many questions, reports Liga.Tech. Since 2014, the term “import substitution” has been popular in Russia, meaning...

CoolCola, Fancy and Street: analogues of famous American drinks were released in Russia

In Russia, they created a “response” to the sanctions - CoolCola, Fancy and Street with “classic tastes” of original drinks. VC.RU writes about this. The Moscow beer and non-alcoholic plant "Ochakovo" presented drinks with the names CoolCola, Fancy and Street. As the manufacturer notes, the new line is “classic flavors of your favorite soft drinks...

Bots, coercion and low quality: how Russia is trying to replace services that have left its market

Shortly after the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine, the Russian authorities began a massive blocking of foreign social networks and actively engaged in import substitution, reports the BBC. News about Russian analogues regularly appears in the media, and users are forcibly driven to the forgotten Rutube, as if to pro-government rallies in ...

Major IT-companies threatened to leave Russia

The largest foreign IT-companies can leave the Russian market "in the conditions of unclear rules of the game." This is stated in a letter sent by the General Director of the Association of European Businesses (AEB) Frank Schauff to the Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov, Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov, Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev and the head of the Federal ...

Products in Russia: Iranian cheese and the "Orthodox standard"

Aleksey Alekseenko, assistant to the head of Rosselkhoznadzor, announced Russia's plans to start delivering dairy products from Iran. According to the official, we are talking about "surprisingly good cheeses." Iranian products, which are planned to be imported into the Russian Federation, have already passed the inspection. In addition, as reported, in the supply of cheese to Russia ...

Kremlin invites Russians to rest with Hugo Chavez

The head of the Russian presidential administration, Sergei Ivanov, said that Western sanctions cannot be called “international isolation,” but suggested that Russians, among other things, vacation in Latin America, Asia and Africa. “The world is not limited to Western Europe, the USA, Canada and several other countries. Other countries and...

In the churches of Russia will pray for import substitution

After Easter, in mid-April, prayers will be read in Russia to help farmers and develop import substitution in Russia. This was announced by the Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Department for Church-Society Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), priest Roman Bogdosarov. According to him,…

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