In the restaurant "La Famiglia", located in the suburbs of Moscow, business has been going quite well since the beginning of the Russian intervention in Ukraine.
The neighboring McDonald's has certainly closed its doors, but that is not the only reason, according to its manager.
Artiom Kolesnikov thinks that the inhabitants no longer go abroad and spend more in Russia.
The same pragmatism in Russia's oldest watch factory, Raketa.
If the brand, bought by a Frenchman in 2011, is experiencing difficulties in continuing to manufacture certain models, it is delighted to see new customers arriving.
"We have been fighting for 10 years to try to explain to Russians that there are not only Swiss watches that exist. Russian watches are also qualitative, they tell beautiful stories. And there, for two month this message gets through much better," says David Henderson-Stewart, general manager of Raketa watches.
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