“It was a kind of discovery for me - we have imported nails, I won’t name the country (where the import comes from), guess three times,” RIA Novosti quotes her words at a meeting of the Federation Council.

Matviyenko urged to involve representatives of small and medium-sized businesses in the production, who “rive so many of these nails that they will fill up the whole of Russia.”

Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree on the allocation of more than 3.7 billion rubles for the modernization of industry in the regions.