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24 Mar, 07:42

Western companies' return to Russia may be difficult if they armed Ukraine — RSPP head

This is a normal approach amid difficult geopolitics, Alexander Shokhin said

MOSCOW, March 24. /TASS/. Non-involvement in financing the Ukrainian armed forces and the manufacture of arms and armaments for Kiev may be required for allowing the return of foreign companies to the Russian market, head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) Alexander Shokhin told TASS.

"I believe that it is probably prudent to move fully to micromanagement and under the principle of an individual approach to each investor, though a standard should still exist. Those more general requirements should be equally applied to all companies. And further on they may be differentiated in terms of how they exited, among other things, how they behaved after leaving, including whether they financed the Ukrainian armed forces and whether they participated directly in the manufacture of armaments, weapons, and so on. This is a normal approach amid difficult geopolitics, this is inevitable," he said.

Earlier, Shokhin said that the governmental commission on foreign investments should allow Western companies to return to the Russian market.