The leadership of Russia is not going to interfere with the regions to cooperate with the American businessman Ilona Mask, if he wants to build a TESLA electric vehicle production plant there. This was stated by the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Sadkov, reports TASS.
According to him, the work of the governor is to increase the investment attractiveness of the region, and the Kremlin can judge only by the end results. There are those who are pretty to succeed in this, but there are also essentially lagging.
Thus, the sand commented on the question, as in Moscow, reacted to the statements of several heads of regions, who promised the mask to provide all the conditions for the organization of production.
Ilon Mask declared the possible construction of a plant in Russia on May 21, while performing video calls at the Marathon “New Knowledge”. Immediately after that, the governors of the Kaluga region, Udmurtia and Moscow region were called in his regions. In turn, the Ministry of Industry will invited the entrepreneur to Russia to discuss concrete initiatives.
In the opposite vein, the governor of the Kaliningrad region Anton Alikhanov. In his opinion, the technologies of Ilona Mask companies do not represent any value for the Russian car industry, and electric cars in Russia are produced and so.