“About the Lada and the intention to transfer officials to them.
My first car was a white “seven” Zhiguli (“Lada-2107”),” Medvedev wrote in his Telegram channel.
He noted that he bought the car in 1995 for about $5,000, after which he sold it for three times cheaper.
According to him, in the summer of 2008, after being elected president, he was offered to buy the car back for $15,000.
“Moral: all officials - only Lada,” Medvedev added.
Earlier, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum during the discussion said that the state should take the risks of the business of selling goods, ensure demand, and also expressed the opinion that Russian officials could be transplanted to Lada cars.
In an interview with Sputnik radio, a member of the Public Chamber of Russia, vice-chairman of the committee for the protection of the rights of car owners Alexander Kholodov commented on this proposal.
“This is quite real, because we are talking about officials of different levels.
I think that it’s okay if service cars are domestically produced somewhere, ”he said.