Since February 2022, the top officials of many companies have practically left the media field - it is unclear what to talk about with the audience in conditions of extreme uncertainty. However, there are representatives of large businesses who loudly express very different points of view on what is happening. We looked at the positions taken by large Russian entrepreneurs in relation to the current crisis, and measured the media significance of their statements using SCAN tools. We show what we got.
Key interviews with various business leaders provide grounds to conditionally divide them into three types depending on the confidence of each of them in the future of the economy. We emphasize that we are not presenting personal, but only public positions of entrepreneurs.
Type I. Optimist-state capitalist
The most optimistic of all are those who are closely jamaica mobile database connected to the state – these are the heads of state corporations. They believe that everything will be fine in the end, and this optimism is based on the desire to strengthen the role of state management in the economic sector.
General position
Western partners are trying to impose their own rules of the game on other countries. The Russian economic paradigm is changing and reorienting itself towards Eastern markets. Russia needs to develop technological sovereignty, then the country will ultimately become stronger and benefit from the current situation.
Examples of Business Leader Positions
Igor Sechin, head of Rosneft, and Alexey Miller, head of Gazprom, sharply criticize the sanctions policy and the hegemony of Western institutions. They consider reorientation to other markets and the implementation of new projects "to the East" as an alternative.
"In the US understanding, sanctions are a kind of magic wand for achieving political and economic goals. When market mechanisms do not ensure the achievement of goals, and political opportunities are absent, the US resorts to sanctions without any justification."
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Igor Sechin
"We have a prepared resource base, both in Eastern Siberia and, I would like to emphasize, in Western Siberia. And we can quickly increase the volume of supplies to the Asian market in the shortest possible time."
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Alexey Miller
Sergey Chemezov, CEO of Rostec, believes that the West has rejected the principles of the free market and is using sanctions as an instrument of aggression. Chemezov sees Russia's task as ensuring technological sovereignty while maintaining cooperation with other regions of the world.