What is the purpose of this demarche?
I really hope that the ultimate goal of this presidential demarche is the desire to finally overthrow officials and deputies who are no longer connected to domestic reality, the number of which, according to Rosstat, is almost 1 million to 400 thousand people. Yet their lifestyle with salaries, apartments, pensions and benefits is more suitable for part of Switzerland, not Russia. The remaining 99% of the country’s population will have no objection to this.
It is true that no such intention was directly announced. If you really want it, its traces can only be found in the caustic epithet “curious bureaucracy.” As for the rise of the domestic auto industry, there are several problems. The first is who exactly the cunning Ministry of Industry and Trade is going to benefit with a major government edict. Here is a list of brands compiled by its specialists that are approved for the gold mine: LADA, UAZ, Aurus, Moskvich, Evolute, Haval – they all have Russian VIN numbers, so you can’t dig into them.
The first two brands will have limited demand in remote provinces and rural areas. Aurus is not a toy for everyone. That leaves Moskvich, Evolute and Haval, which in the vast majority of cases will be chosen by shrewd corporate executives in the service of authorities at various levels. All three brands have deep Chinese roots, and the lion’s share of budget funds will go to the Chinese, and not to their Russian partners, in the development of which Middle Kingdom companies are not at all interested.