Putin instructed to prepare proposals for the promotion of Russian video games in the BRICS

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to develop proposals for promoting Russian video games to world markets, including the markets of the BRICS member countries. This is stated in a post on the Kremlin website. list instructions of the head of state following the visit to the exhibition “Development of the Creative Economy in Russia”.

The Cabinet of Ministers was instructed to submit to the president by September 30 this year “proposals for promoting domestic video games and the Russian software used in them to foreign markets, including the BRICS countries.” The same instruction was given to the Russian Export Center (REC) and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI).

The prime minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin, as well as the heads of the Russian Export Center and ASI Veronika Nikishina and Svetlana Chupsheva are listed as responsible for the implementation of the order on the Kremlin website.

On July 19, during a meeting of the Supervisory Board of the Russia – Land of Opportunity organization, Vladimir Putin said that, in his opinion, computer games should help a person develop and find himself. He also called the video game industry a huge multi-billion dollar business and urged people to take it seriously.

In May, at the exhibition in the center of constructivism “Zotov”, the head of the organization for the development of the video game industry, Vasily Ovchinnikov asked the President of the Russian Federation, whether he plays video games on weekends. Why Vladimir Putin joked: “I play on weekdays.” Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov later declaredthat he knows nothing about whether the head of state plays video games.

After the start of the military operation, the most popular global platform for the sale of games Steam froze payments to studios from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Russians were also banned from buying games directly. Against this background, the Russian platform VK Play was launched. She became the exclusive publisher of the computer game Atomic Heart in the CIS.

Alexander Kislov