Russian entrepreneur, billionaire, the main shareholder of the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Combine Vladimir Lisin, with the position of which “Kommersant” got acquainted, called a very difficult situation in the Russian economy after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In his opinion, the key issue is not the development, but the survival of the business.
The billionaire called on Russian federal authorities not to worsen the situation with an ill-informal regulation of the economy. “Obviously, many measures are now being accepted rapidly, their consequences were not analyzed to fully. It seems to me that the speed should give way of calibration, adequacy, so that the consequences have not been devastating for the domestic industry, where millions of people are employed,” Russian businessman believes. / P>
Lisin is worried about the initiative to expand the list of export goods, which are supposed to be sold for rubles. He believes that the transition to payments in the Russian national currency will throw us off from international markets “:” maybe something will turn out with gas, but the rest? We are fighting for decades for export markets, where no one is waiting for us. Laid the relationship with thousands of customers in 70 countries. It is difficult to imagine that it can convince our buyers to switch to calculations in rubles and carry foreign currency risks. Logistics problems have already complicated the delivery of products to the consumer. “
In addition, according to the observations of Vladimir Lisin, fixing prices for metal products and the refusal of the formulative pricing based on market indexes do not simplify the life of the business. The entrepreneur noted that over the past weeks, suppliers raised prices at times, and in such conditions “the freezing of prices for final products will lead to the fact that its release will simply stop due to losses.”