Putin announced the imminent start of purchases of domestic cars for officials

The government and department managers have built a “chain” of officials switching to domestic cars, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“There were proposals to continue these purchases [зарубежных авто] – it’s not difficult to do, the logistics are well established. But I said that I have great doubts about whether this practice should be continued, to put it mildly. The government and the presidential administration have built a chain of who gets what. Let them drive domestic cars,” the president said.

On August 3, during a meeting with heads of manufacturing enterprises, the president said that all Russian officials should start driving domestically produced cars. After this, the Ministry of Industry and Trade reported that Russian automakers have all the necessary capacity to supply cars to government agencies.

AvtoVAZ, Moskvich and Aurus announced their readiness to send cars for officials. August 4, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin statedthat parliament will begin to switch to domestic cars from September.