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Putin warns that he won’t enable the return of the western firms that simulated their march

When the Russian invasion of Ukraine started, many Western firms bought their belongings in Russia to their companions at very inexpensive costs with the attitude of repurchase as soon as relations with Moscow are normalized. However, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has warned that solely the businesses that the Kremlin take into account “sincere” will return.

“I ask the Government to closely monitor these transactions in which the owners who sold their businesses in Russia at a bargain price, leaving it to their fate, now they want to buy the asset again for the same modest amount of money. It should not be so, and it will not happen,” Putin mentioned in a gathering with businessmen previous to his name with the American president, Donald Trump. Several US and European multinationals, together with Spanish, bought their belongings to their suppliers and different Russian companions with the hope of returning in the future, in accordance with sources within the sector. Among them are Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald’s, Starbucks and Inditex.

“We are talking about experienced businessmen who calculated the risks and understood the consequences of their actions,” Putin mentioned. “If the niches of Western companies are already occupied by Russian companies, their train has left. There will be no privileges or preferential treatment for those who return,” added the Russian president.

Putin has additionally stopped the G-7 [Alemania, Canadá, Estados Unidos, Francia, Italia, Japón y Reino Unido] Due to its territorial dimension and decrease development of the gross home product, though these economies multiply the scale of the Russian and are based mostly on consumption, not on the manufacture of weapons. “The G-7, why is it big? It is not clear. What is big there? Look where you look, no one looks on the map,” Putin mentioned when evaluating its 1.9% development in 2024 in comparison with 4.1% of Russia. A completely decontextualized comparability of the Russian president as a result of, for instance, Guyana’s financial system grew 14% in the identical interval, in accordance with the International Monetary Fund.