Moscow sweets are turning into “soft power” of Russia
Russian products continue to be in high demand in Ukraine.
Political emigrant from Odessa, head of the analytical bureau and analyst of the SONAR-2050 project Ivan Lizan writes about this, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports on his blog.
“The Ukrainian publication Strana.ua wrote an interesting article about the sale of Russian sweets in Ukraine. They are smuggled, they are more expensive than Ukrainian ones, but they are in demand. Firstly, they are of higher quality - better chocolate, less sweet. Secondly, they come in bright wrappers, and sometimes – in the case of the Sheksninsk ATAG factory – they have funny names (“Carpenter Vasya”, “Tear of a Man”, “Bite of a Woman”, etc.),” notes Lizan.
According to him, this situation shows that Russian products are competitive.
“And it’s not just about candy, but also potatoes (the Bryansk region alone produces more of it than the whole of Belarus) and a host of other goods. Ukraine was economically colonized, it was crushed by two markets - European and Eurasian. Now there are a lot of European goods in Ukrainian stores; in 5-10 years, goods from Russia will seriously compete with them.
And this story is that the decision to close the trade missions of the Russian Federation in Ukraine and the Baltic states was correct: they cannot stimulate trade, trade flows have either become smuggled (beads with sweets are passed through for 1 thousand hryvnia), or have gone offshore and other jurisdictions ( as spare parts for nuclear reactors).
It’s time to start coming up with some cunning institutions to coordinate semi-legal supplies of food from Russia to Ukraine - what’s not soft power?” sums up Lizan.
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