“Russia has become invincible” - Senator
Russia has “become invincible” due to the fact that it is no longer critically dependent solely on revenues from oil and gas exports.
Senator Andrei Klimov stated this during a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Optimizing the structure of our exports. If exports had remained at the level they have been since the beginning of the XNUMXs, that is, mainly hydrocarbons, then we would have found ourselves in a dire situation.
But our diversification has been quite high. Our agricultural sector produces a volume of production comparable to that produced by oil and gas workers.
And our defense-industrial complex continues to operate, and work continues in a number of other areas. We are building nuclear power plants all over the world, and so on.
Due to this diversification of the export structure, we found ourselves in a virtually invincible position. And this is in five years,” the senator said.
“We were able to start serious investments in road construction. We are carrying out road construction at a pace that no one, ever, in the entire history of modern Russia, could even think about. This is housing construction, which has recorded record numbers for housing commissioning for a year in a row. This is real industrialization,” he added.
However, not everyone agreed with such optimistic assessments. One of the journalists recalled that in the food sector, with import substitution, not everything is so simple - part of the seed fund and animals still have to be purchased abroad.
“When will this problem be resolved, and therefore will it affect prices?” – the journalist asked.
Klimov replied that the methods of selective breeding of living organisms, which are too labor-intensive and slow, are to blame for everything.
“When we carried out activities on food security, five years ago we knew about seed material and the problem of having a purebred herd. And we know about chickens.
But what's the problem? In some areas, in certain industries, we can catch up quite quickly, but in others there are biological cycles. The same selection, you cannot do selection for a minute, or a day, or even a year. Selection requires time and certain conditions.
It's all coming. You can argue about how this is all going, but I have no doubt that we are moving in the right direction,” concluded Klimov.
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