Putin Promises To Switch Officials To Russian Cars For Fourth Time In 16 Years
7- 29.01.2025, 4:28
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Officials ignore the dictator's instructions.
Vladimir Putin has announced the need to switch Russian officials and heads of state-owned companies to domestically produced cars. The dictator has made similar calls before: in 2023, 2012 and 2008.
‘It is necessary to switch officials to Russian cars. And, indeed, there is such an order. But, unfortunately, I look at what is happening in this sphere, this instruction has not yet been fully implemented,’ Putin said while talking to AvtoVAZ employees.
He called defining the criteria by which a car can be considered to be made in Russia one of the key difficulties preventing the problem from being solved. According to Putin, specialists are now working on creating a system for assessing the level of localisation, while he is also dealing with this issue and already has an idea of how to approach it.
Putin noted that the use of Russian-made cars by officials is a form of support for the domestic car industry, which is also fully in line with market principles: ‘The state buys its own, this is an absolutely natural thing.’
In September 2023, after a meeting with the heads of Russian manufacturing companies, Putin instructed to ensure that officials prioritise the use of Russian-made cars. A month before that, he had said that civil servants should switch to domestic cars, adding, ‘If it looks more modest than before, it's no big deal, it's even a good thing.’
In 2012, when he was prime minister, he demanded that all state and municipal authorities, as well as enterprises financed from the federal budget, buy cars manufactured in the Common Economic Space - in Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. And in 2008, Putin emphasised that in the future ‘not a single rouble from the treasury’ should be spent on buying imported cars for officials and heads of state corporations.
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