foreign investors left us so much that you just have to pick it up – Kommersant

The head of Norilsk Nickel, Vladimir Potanin, believes that foreign entrepreneurs have left many businesses in the Russian Federation that Russian players can only “select.” Forbes previously named Mr. Potanin the leader in the rating of new owners of departed foreign companies.

“So many things like Vladimir Vladimirovich (Putin.— “Ъ”) said, foreign investors left us everything you can pick,” said Mr. Potanin at the VTB forum “Russia Calling!”

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the forum toldthat the number of foreign companies operating in the Russian Federation after the introduction of sanctions increased from 24.1 thousand to 25.6 thousand. He noted that Russian business “took over everything from the leaving companies and moved forward.”

Vladimir Potanin at the end of 2022 headed Forbes list of the largest new owners of foreign companies. His company Interros in the spring of 2022 bought from the French group Societe Generale Rosbank. In addition, Interros in the spring of 2022 also bought 35% in TCS Group, which owns Tinkoff Bank. Oleg Tinkov declaredthat he was forced to sell his share “for pennies.” Mr. Potanin stated that he bought a stake in the company for “hundreds of millions of dollars.”

Leonid Uvarchev