Audit Firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) predicts that in 2014 sales of cars in Russia will fall by 8-12%. Automotive market of Russia is experiencing a slowdown due to a conflict in Ukraine, ruble depreciation and the increase in car loans, Deutsche Welle reports. The total number of cars bought by Russian consumers In the current year will not exceed 2, 3-2, 4 million units. PwC also said that during two-three years, sales of passenger cars in the Russian market have the opportunity to recover at the level of 2012 and again start to grow by 3-3 .5% each year. Negative impact on sales of cars in the Russian Federation providing punishment imposed by the West. According to the information of the concern BMW, in the first half of the Firm sold in the Russian Federation 20 thousand Cars that approximately corresponds to the level of sales for the same period last year. But already in June, the drop in sales in the Russian Federation amounted to almost 12%. Now in the organization reflect on what alternative markets could supply the cars intended for the Russian Federation. The EU since 1 August 2014 introduced sectoral punishment on the Russian financial sector. Five Russian banks have come under limits: Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, VNESHECONOMBANK and Rosselkhozbank. However, the EU brought out from under sanctions " dochek " Russian state-owned banks, with account of the EU. The US has also tightened the punishment is relatively Russia, including in the list of the Vice-speaker of the state Duma Sergei Neverov, Minister on Affairs of Crimea Oleg Savelyev, assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Igor Schegolev, and Alexander Beard, DND and LNR, NGO " Izhmash ", NGO " Bazalt " and Uralvagonzavod. Last week the US imposed sanctions against the Bank of Moscow, VTB, Rosselkhozbank and the United shipbuilding Corporation (USC).
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