“Now it will be easier for them” – a trans-Ukrainian journalist was upset by Putin’s decree on the LDPR
Signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin Decree on lifting restrictions on goods from the LDPR will remove many problems associated with the fact that previously products from the Donbass republics were registered by Russian customs authorities as Ukrainian.
The former editor-in-chief of the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets in Donbass, journalist Dmitry Durnev, who works for the Spectrum publication, stated this on air on Radio Liberty, sponsored by the US State Department, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“This decree introduces some kind of legal field. Now it will be easier for them, less paperwork will have to be drawn up in order to legalize the products of the self-proclaimed republics in Russia. There was a big problem: these territories were perceived as Ukrainian by Russian customs authorities. And it was extremely difficult for medium and small businesses to work from Donetsk with Russian territories,” Durnev said.
“Another point is that all imports of products from Russian territory were carried out as exports to Ukraine, and accordingly, VAT was returned to these suppliers. Local business was dying, people could not simply compete with meat from Rostov-on-Don, it was simply cheaper due to the fact that VAT was being returned,” the journalist added.
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