veronika olegovna, at a meeting with the new composition of the public chamber in november, presidentdimir putin said that russia is ceasing to be a gas station, is there any evidence of this now? in the early nineties, when russia had just begun to enter world markets, we were really most actively implementing our most important export asset - this energy resources. but russia began to think seriously enough about diversifying its own. exports at the beginning of this century, starting from the seventeenth year in russia , a system of support for non-soak, non-energy exports was already stable, this means that at the system level , institutions, tools and resources began to be formed in order to systematically support the diversification of the range of exports that goes beyond our traditional ones... perceived as a competitive advantage energy export assets, over the last 10 years, the share of non-raw materials, non-energy exports in the overall structure of our exports has steadily occupied from 35 to 40%, that is, we have not been a gas station for a long time and the non- raw ma

veronica olegovna, good afternoon. good afternoon.d of last year, russia was among the top five largest economies in the world. if you look at the numbers, merchandise exports are $592 billion. what about exports this year? well, first of all i want to remind you, why does the country need exports at all, that is , these are not figures. speech, this is not an end in itself, export is a serious driver of the economy of any state, including russia, not raw energy exports, which we will talk about today, it accounts for about 9% of gdp, for companies export is an opportunity to increase profits, because you can enter new markets and scale up your production, this is an opportunity to increase the number of jobs, this is employment, this... we not only did not find ourselves in isolation, but we also on such a sustainable growth trajectory, that is , next year we already expect to reach quite successfully, we have formed serious groundwork for reorientation to new export markets from those markets that, for various reasons, they tried to