President – Chairman of the Board of VTB Bank Andrei Kostin called the main challenges of 2022 years. “The main challenge is the stabilization of inflation without excessive cooling of the economy. This is, by the way, the challenge and for central banks around the world,” he said in the sidelines of the VTB Capital Investment Forum, “Russia call!”.
Long-term challenges, according to Kostin, are associated with the adaptation of the Russian economy to the power transmission, the need to solve demographic problems and ensure the availability of key advanced technologies in the country. “Here are two risks: a lag in the development of key technologies and an exception from the perimeter of trade in key components,” he added.
At the same time, according to the head of VTB, the main opportunity is to “take new niches when the world seeks to diversify production and transport chains, as well as find geography with stable business conditions, including well-wired energy resources on acceptable Prices “.