01.03.2022, Moscow.
The West’s sanctions target the vulnerabilities of the Russian economy that resulted from the de-industrialization and technological inferiority, Editor-in-Chief of the Economist journal, professor of the Moscow State University Sergey Gubanov said in a commentary for the Rossa Primavera News Agency.
“The worst for us in the sanctions is suspended supplies of semiconductor electronics and microprocessors,” the expert indicated, adding that microprocessors are one of the three basic products of the modern technetronic neo-industrial age.
He also believes that the sanctions target “inter-bank communication digital technology (and this is microprocessors again), supercomputers, protocols, cryptographic protection of bank transactions.”
The listed sectors are the sectors of “a new industrialization, digital industrialization, technetronic industrialization,” and this is where, the expert believes, we are underdeveloped.
As for another basic product, electric power, we can see that we remain at the level of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The energy generation level is the same as 30 years ago, “with no single kilowatt added,” the expert stressed.
“What does the almost total ban on any supplies of aviation equipment mean, what is it aimed at? It is aimed at the destruction of our domestic aviation industry,” Gubanov explained. In other words, “the neo-industrial countries, the neo-industrial seven punish us using our de-industrialization.”
The economist believes that for Russia, especially under sanctions, it is vital “to develop science. To offer extra-class conditions to scientists. To establish experimental and development production, at the extra-class level, too. To develop instrumental and laboratory facilities.”
This need is overdue, and this is where the West targets its blow on Russia, the expert believes. “What we need today is to make sanctions senseless through a new industrialization,” the expert concluded.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
