No pressure in any form will be applied to
businessmen and commercial firms, according to the speaker of the upper house
of the Russian parliament.
MOSCOW,
November 2. /TASS/. The Federation Council will recommend Russian companies to
abandon advertising in Twitter but this will not be a prohibition, speaker of
the upper house of the Russian parliament Valentina Matvienko told reporters on
Thursday.
"Certainly,
we will express such recommendations [to stop advertising in Twitter] but we
will not apply pressure in any way to our businessmen and our commercial firms.
This is their right to decide whether to limit commercial ties with Twitter or
not. Believe me, there is no order. This is not within the power of the
president and within the power of the government - to give orders to business,
to command business," the speaker said.
Source: ITAR-TASS 02-11-2017
