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2023-03-01 10:20:47+00:00
Russian exporters create more than 5.5 million jobs
💬“During the last six years, the number of non-commodity non-energy exporters has increased by 40%,” Veronika Nikishina, CEO of the Russian Export Center, said at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy.
The number of job positions directly associated with the export activity grows respectively. According to the REC’s assessments, the number of such jobs exceeded 5.5 million in 2021.
Roman Chekushov, Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Licensing in the Field of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, also spoke at the meeting.
Last year, the Ministry of Industry and Trade jointly with the REC managed to reshape instruments for export support, he said. For example, a record number of exporters received logistics compensations.
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2023-03-02 14:16:48+00:00
Top diplomat: All Russian partners interested in making payments in national currencies
Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov said this at a press conference following the G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting in New Dehli, India.
💬“All our partners, not merely those we met here but also those with whom we communicate at a different time, in other places during our visits to them and during their trips to our country, everyone without exception are interested in widening the use of national currencies in our mutual trade,” the Minister said.
The share of foreign trade settlements in national currencies is growing steadily, and “so it will continue further on,” he added.
💬“We focus on forming reliable transport corridors, independent payment systems, and the expansion of payments in national currencies within the framework of BRICS, SCO and EAEU,” the Sergey Lavrov stressed.