ST. PETERBURG, June 20. /TASS/. Russia must comply with rules of international trade and international standards, including technical, food and other ones, Russian Accounts Chamber chairman Alexey Kurdin believes.

"Russia must retain its adherents to the basic institutions of the market; the globalization has not gone anywhere, although many have started talking about island economies, technological powers. I don’t quite agree with this term. […] For example, in order to sell your products, you must comply with technical standards, safety standards of products, used in these countries. In order to overcome these national borders, the world has long started developing international standards, in order to increase freedom of movement of its products," Kudrin told TASS on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

Russia should not develop its own technical standards in order to remain an international player, the official believes.

"I concede that these moods or tensions will lead to us orienting ourselves not to Western technical standards, but, for example, to Chinese technical standards. But, to create our own technical standards, means to lock ourselves out and stop selling our products either to China or other Asian states. Which means we must comply with some common standards. The whole world was going towards Western and Eastern - Japanese, for example, standards converging. I do not think that the world has gone in some other direction in this sense. […] About food. Yes, indeed, domestic markets protect themselves a little; European standards differ a little from other states, but, if we want to export our food to these markets, then we will comply with their standards," Kudrin opined.