Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday urged Russians to shun imported foreign cars in favor of locally produced ones _ which the government even offered to help ship to remote regions _ in an effort to help a troubled auto industry.
With domestic and foreign companies curtailing car production in Russia and warning of potential layoffs, the Kremlin is increasingly worried about the fate of car manufacturing and its related industries, which altogether employ more than 1.5 million workers.
Putin called for setting up a national leasing company to buy locally made cars and for compensating the state rail monopoly for transporting Russian cars thousands of …
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