President Vladimir Putin during the Message to the Federal Assembly reminded the empty shelves of stores in the 1980s and 190s and urged to prevent the repetition of such a situation. Live broadcast is conducted on the Youtube channel “Russia 24”.
For this, according to him, it is necessary to use market price regulation mechanisms. “Rely on, in fact, the policy measures, of course, can not be. We remember what it leads to another in the 1990s, in the late 1980s in the Soviet Union – to empty shelves,” the president noted.
“Government’s task – to form long-term conditions that – I want to emphasize it – it is with the help of market mechanisms, and they are, guarantee the predictability of prices and high-quality saturation of the domestic market,” continued Putin, emphasizing that at the peak of a coronavirus pandemic It was possible to prevent the deficit of products.