State Duma Speaker Cautions Businesses Against Attempts At Profiteering

Russian State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin believes that private businesses should refrain from attempts at profiteering and try to devise alternative solutions to emerging problems, even at the cost of private gains.

"Businesses should by all means refrain from making money on the people. They should reconsider approaches and devise solutions capable of eliminating the emerging problems, even at the cost private gains," Volodin said on his Telegram channel on Sunday.

He recalled that in the current situation "some give away their last savings to raise humanitarian aid for Donbass refugees, while others prefer to go abroad to wait for the turmoil to subside, or, while staying inside the country, raise prices their fellow citizens have to pay."

"Those who have been obsessed with profit-seeking all along in the current situation must take care of the people and the country. They must give thought to preserving jobs and expanding production in view of the foreign capitals’ flight from the Russian market," Volodin said.

Sunday’s latest reports from the regions say the prices of diesel fuel and fertilizers have been going down.

"This means we will have essential foods not only this year, but in the future, too," Volodin said, adding that the legislators supported the Ministry of Industry and Trade in its efforts to reduce metal prices.

"The foreign markets’ influence on price hikes has eased. There should follow a reduction in the domestic prices of metals and other goods," Volodin said.

He stressed that "each individual must be aware of one’s responsibility for Russia’s future."

"Our soldiers and officers are giving their lives for the security of Russia and for a chance to have a future. They are saving our citizens and compatriots in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and in Ukraine from nationalists. During these troubled times we should take a more considerate attitude to each other and to extend a helping hand," Volodin said. He warned that "panic and tensions in society are precisely the aim of Washington’s and NATO’s unprecedented economic war."