The Bell learned about conducting drills in banks and companies in case of sanctions

In Russia, a series of meetings of government members took place last week on the readiness of economic sectors for possible sanctions due to the situation around Ukraine, they were chaired by First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov. It is reported by The Bell, citing sources. RBC sent a request to Belousov's office.

As three interlocutors told The Bell, the meetings were held on the basis of the results of technological exercises (stress tests) of Russian companies and systemically important banks to disconnect their IT infrastructure from the support of foreign companies. According to the portal, all systemically important banks, not only Sberbank, conducted such exercises, representatives of Aeroflot, Russian Post and Russian Railways made presentations at the meetings, one of The Bell sources listed.

In these companies, the portal's inquiries were not answered, and Belousov's representative did not answer the questions either.

“In terms of infrastructure, we are looking only at Chinese contractors <...> Nobody specifically insists on Huawei, but this is a recommendation that should be taken into account in the current conditions,” a source at one of the large state-owned banks told The Bell.