Cinema and cars: what foreign products are lacking in SPIEF participants

in St. Petersburgthe jubilee 25th SPIEF has started. It takes place against the backdrop of increased sanctions against Russia in recent months. RBC found out from forum participants which foreign companies and products they will miss

Victoria Abramchenko, Deputy Prime Minister

“[It will be missing], probably, something from the category of culture, a high-quality visual range, for example, cinema.”

Maksut Shadayev, Minister of Digital Development

“I have enough for now. We don't choose. We have to live in these restrictions.”

Olga Chepurina, Deputy Head of the Government Staff

“To be honest, there are no [goods and services that are missing]. I was very afraid that there would be problems with lenses and glasses, but it turned out that everything was fine. You can say it worked out. So I don't feel it yet; I really want to believe that everything will be fine in the future.”

Vladimir Komlev, head of NSPK

"Some car brands will be missed."

Alexander Shokhin, head of the RSPP

“Neither I nor my family felt a shortage of familiar goods due to the fact that, perhaps, they accumulated durable goods. I honestly admit that, of course, for the last three months I have been replacing some of my equipment, realizing that it may not be there. When something breaks, I will not find options to replace it with similar products. Therefore, I, so to speak, have already made some renovations in everyday life. And I hope that during this time, when the next renewal period comes, Russian business will cope with this task as well.”

Alexey Likhachev, CEO of Rosatom

“I have always had enough of my own in the country. I don't even know who's leaving. I heard something, but for me it is not a load-bearing structure.”

Denis Butsaev, CEO of the Russian Environmental Operator (REO)

“I don’t just miss all those who left Russia. In this regard, [their departure] even played in favor. My wife is an ardent advocate of a healthy lifestyle. And all those who left the Russian Federation were just irritants to her (wife) calmness. I mean fast food and sugary drinks companies. [Regarding the exit of sports brands], we haven't seen any changes: they either replaced quite successfully or they didn't really leave."

Aisen Nikolaev, Head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

“I personally missed McDonald's. But now McDonald's has already returned (on the basis of this network, establishments "Vkusno - and that's it" began to open in Russia. -). I love McDonald's.

Roman Rotenberg, entrepreneur

“A difficult question, let's discuss this later ... We have everything. All will be".

Ruslan Sarkisov, CEO, Voskhod venture fund

“As a consumer, I can probably cope with the lack of Netflix series, branded clothing and Instagram swiping (I’m even glad for the opportunity). More important and sensitive is the departure of IT solution providers and owners of industrial technologies and enterprises producing means of production, in particular in mechanical engineering, electronics, etc.”

Alexey Grom, General Director of UTLC ERA JSC

“Most likely, this is the mobility to move from Moscow to one of the European countries and back. But then again, for business meetings, you can find a neutral country that both Europeans and Russians can quickly get to.”

Kirill Varlamov, Director of the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF)

“I don’t have any [to be missed]. I have not changed anything in my consumption model, oddly enough. I may have used a little, I'm such a conservative user actually. Nothing happened to me ... Netflix, Pornhub (according to the latest data, the site freezes marketing activity in Russia, but still continues to work. -) - I did not use anything like that. <…>. It's impossible to eat at McDonald's <…>. Didn't buy anything from IKEA. Facebook was not at all interesting to me as a network - in the last few years I gave my account to an assistant so that she would broadcast requests to me.

Alexander Akopov, producer, founder of Amedia

“I can do without anything at all. I don't have time to watch mine."

Nikolai Gulyaev, Olympic champion and president of the Skating Union

“Probably, at first we will experience some difficulties with the acquisition of inventory. In general, this is enough for now, and I hope that our light industry will soon replace it with a vengeance.”

Polina Askeri, founder of Askeri Gallery

“We faced huge problems in the field of payment, so many foreign buyers stopped buying art: it is very difficult to pay for the work of foreign artists. And this is a rather lengthy process that not all artists and clients are willing to endure. This time. Two - we had an active foreign program, participation in international fairs, we traveled to South Korea, and to Shanghai, and to America, to New York and Miami <…>. Now we find ourselves cut off from foreign economic activity and all that remains is to work for the Russian market. This greatly narrows the possibilities <...>. But I hope that the state will help us and certain laws will be adopted, such as the law on patronage, which we do not have and never had in the country.”

Yulia Petrova, Director of the Museum of Russian Impressionism

“Like most people, we are faced with the shutdown of digital services: Google, mailing service, CRM. We really hope to find analogues in the coming months and somehow adapt. But, you know, it has long become clear that it is pointless to sit and cry about the departed. <...> For the museum, the main, certainly the most irreplaceable loss is partnership with Western museum collections. Even those agreements that we had signed as of February were declared null and void by the Western side in March unilaterally. In general, this was the expected decision. <...> And if this hit us to a lesser extent, since the Museum of Russian Impressionism works mainly with Russian objects, with Russian works, then most of the museums that somehow work with foreign art,