Before the conflict, the factory town of Kaluga, 200 kilometers from the capital, attracted foreign investment and became very vulnerable to sanctions. Youri welcomes us into the family business. These machines are Chinese, there is no import problem. But to manufacture this medical analysis equipment, this entrepreneur used European spare parts.
“That’s the Italian engine we used before, unfortunately, we can’t import it anymore. We replaced it with this engine, which was made in Belarus. It’s a bit bulkier, but otherwise, it’s is exactly the same thing, and moreover, it is cheaper”, he says. He is one of the optimists. Between system D and parallel circuit, he thinks he can overcome the crisis. “We can export it to the Middle East, Asia… You Westerners have to understand that the world is much bigger than the United States. We are already selling equipment to Africa, which is a future continent”he adds.
