“The wood that we used to import from Russia can no longer be imported from the country,” said Vlastislav Brzhiza, the owner of the manufacturer, in an interview with Seznam Zpravy.
According to him, now the company has to buy wood from China and transport it across the ocean, which is many times more expensive.
As Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten noted earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin was right when he said that the West's economic blitzkrieg against Russia had failed because Moscow was "well prepared for an economic war."
The British magazine The Economist also wrote that the Russian economy is showing resilience despite unprecedented sanctions from the West.