The Federal Penitentiary Service considered it possible to replace IKEA with products from prisoners

According to the HEAD of the Sverdlovsk Federal Penitentiary Service Alexander Fedorov, the price / quality ratio of goods produced by prisoners is higher,therefore, they "may well replace foreign companies"

Products manufactured in colonies by Russian prisoners are capable of replacing brands that have left RUSSIA in a number of segments, Alexander Fedorov, head of the GUFSIN for the Sverdlovsk region, said, local Oblgazeta writes.

“The price/quality ratio [of our products] is higher than that of foreign analogues. I have no doubt that in a number of segments our institutions may well be replaced by foreign companies, especially given that the turnover and the number of people employed in production are growing year by year,” he said.

In turn, Ivan Sharkov, head of the department of labor adaptation of convicts of the Main Penitentiary Service for the Sverdlovsk Region, added that the colonies "may take the place of IKEA." “If we compare furniture, we have better quality and lower prices. We are not businessmen. The main task of the functioning of production in the colonies is the employment of convicts, ”he stressed.

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Since the end of February, many Western countries have begun to impose anti-Russian sanctions due to the military operation in Ukraine. Thus, the EU sanctions, among other things, affected the EXPORT of equipment, cars, luxury goods. In addition, hundreds of foreign companies have suspended their activities in Russia, and many have left the Russian market.

In this regard, Russia has partially abolished the responsibility for parallel (gray) imports, that is, for the importation of original goods into the country without the consent of the copyright holder, which was previously banned. As clarified in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the permit will affect the products of only those enterprises that have stopped or suspended work in Russia. In particular, the initial list of such goods included electronics (APPLE, Samsung, Asus, Intel, Sony, HP), automobiles (Jaguar, Porsche, Rolls-Royce, Bentley and others), rare earth metals, sports equipment, motor fuel, railway locomotives and rolling stock, boats and other products.

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At the end of April, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov, said that the Ministry of Industry and Trade was ready to quickly exclude brands from the list for parallel imports if companies decide to continue working in Russia. In early July, products from the Duracell (batteries), Merries (diapers) and Wilo (pumps) brands, which continue to supply the country, were excluded from the list.

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