Russia fails to break away from Western technologies, despite repeated calls from Vladimir Putin and his claims that this goal has already been achieved. The country remains heavily dependent on imports in key areas for the war it is waging, including machinery construction, drone production, and the energy sector, according to an assessment by the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, consulted by Financial Times.
According to the document, efforts to increase exports of non-energy products are not yielding the expected results.
The assessment includes a six-year plan to achieve import substitution goals in critical sectors by 2030, the year Putin’s current presidential term expires. The authors of the document argue that the transformation of the economy is inevitable and predict an accelerated transition towards technological independence from foreign suppliers.
However, by the end of the decade, Russia will not achieve technological independence in any sector. In shipbuilding, the level of self-sufficiency will be below 60%, in aviation — about 50%. Even in the case of drones, which currently depend on over 60% of foreign components, Russia will manage to produce domestically only about 80% of the necessary components in five years.
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