Oligarch Vladimir Potanin says Moscow badly needs remote workers including computer programmers to help its battered economy recover.
LONDON, United Kingdom – One of Russia’s richest tycoons called on the authorities on Monday, January 23, to tolerate rather than punish hundreds of thousands of workers who have“People who work for our economy from abroad – remotely or otherwise – should not be punished,” billionaire metals executivetold the online RBC news portal, calling for an end to talk of punitive measures against them, something he called “demagoguery.
Hardliners such as former president Dmitry Medvedev have called some of those who fled “traitors” who should never be allowed back home. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in comments last week to online news portal Life, said that while the state must fight its “enemies” it must also ensure that Russians who had not adopted a hostile stance to their country and its policies should be able to return home.battered economy“Most of them continue to work for our country, our economy, our companies. Some of them will come back, some will not. So why push them away and persecute them?” Potanin told RBC.
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