Sputnik: You are actively engaged in foreign markets both in military and civilian industries. What products and which markets do you consider the most promising, especially in Latin America?
I can say that in 2018 Rosoboronexport set a new record – we sold $13.7 billion worth of machinery abroad. Our order portfolio is more than $50 billion, so it allows us to safely fulfil any plan. We don’t want to be too fast, but there are certain factors that don’t allow us to drastically increase volumes.
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As for Latin America, we are actively working with Latin America. There were rumours that we are reducing our 1000-people representation there, but we have never had such a representative there; our representative office consists of 10 people. That is fake news, but what is interesting is that even Trump commented on it.
