Kudrin: Exile Coca -Cola from Russia is not the best anti -crisis program

American companies not only purchase raw materials in Russia, but also create jobs. The ex-Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin wrote about this on his Twitter, commenting on the statement of the head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexei Pushkov, who the day before suggested Coca-Cola and McDonald's support for US sanctions against Russia and "save the country from its products."

“They will be true to principles, and we will be healthier,” Pushkov wrote.

“Pushkov, apparently, does not know that 85 percent of the raw materials“ McDonalds ”supply more than 160 Russian companies,” Coca-Cola purchases more than 75 percent of raw materials in the Russian Federation. We leave tens of thousands of Russians without work - an excellent anti -crisis program, ”Kudrin emphasized. He also noted that“ if, due to the political pressure of some deputies, “high -tech companies in the United States will limit deliveries to our country,“ this will really hit Russian industry. ”

Coca-Cola, in turn, invited Pushkova on an excursion to any of the 12 factories in Russia. This was reported to the "Russian News Service" by the director for external relations and communications of the company in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus Anna Kozlovskaya.

"Our enterprises are operating 13,000 employees, indirect employment is 80,000 people. McDonald's has 40 thousand employees. If we take into account the family of those who are involved in the work of these companies, then after the departure of Coca -Cola and McDonalds from Russia, a million people would be without work and without a livelihood," she said.