Patrushev made a corresponding statement at a meeting in Kurgan on current issues of national security in the Ural Federal District.

“The pace of implementation of critical domestic technologies and products remains insufficient,” he noted.

According to him, companies in Russia still continue to concentrate on the purchase of ready-made foreign goods, using the parallel import mechanism.

Earlier, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin spoke about how import substitution is being developed in the capital.