As the Kremlin spokesman noted, import substitution is a topic that the government is specifically involved in, as well as the president himself, with whom the head of Rostec Sergey Chemezov met the day before.
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) spoke about the work of Rostec, which carries out very, very large projects, including those related to import substitution.
This is also connected with production, new competencies, high technologies, and so on.
Therefore, to say that everything has failed is hardly, probably, one can agree with this, ”Peskov told reporters.
The fact that there are unfulfilled plans - "yes, for sure," he admitted.
“We do not live and work in ideal conditions, the conditions, on the contrary, are aggressive.
But, despite this, hard work is still being carried out, and this cannot be denied.
Although, of course, we cannot rest on our laurels, as they say, because there is still much to be done, and to do it not in the usual, but in an emergency mode, taking into account the conditions in which we exist, ”he summed up.
Earlier, Andrei Klishas, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation, expressed the opinion that "the import substitution program has failed."
At the same time, the senator said that after 2014, import substitution "gives clear results" in agriculture and food production: in any grocery store, "everything will be on the shelves."