Russian President Vladimir Putin’s interest in Russia’s creative industry shows that the country lives at a healthy pace and rhythm. Oleg Matveychev, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, said this after the president’s visit to the Zotov construction site in Moscow.
Zotov Center is a new space in Moscow. I also live nearby and saw how this old corner of Moscow has changed before my eyes. It was a dilapidated bakery before, but now it is an excellent restored complex. Of course, it has become a center of attraction for young people because designers, video game developers, architects, all the people of the creative industry in general are working and coming here, and that’s not a little bit,” he said.
According to him, these are the people who make the future of Russia because they really look to the future. At the same time, Matveychev emphasized that it is clear that the future belongs to the creative industry.
“Previously, the President said that we were speeding towards our lane and they were trying to overtake us in the opposite lane. We look to the future with confidence and do not surrender to panic, to talk about the need to cancel everything now, to announce the mobilization that now is not the time for the creativity, games and design that everyone should wear. This is robes or hakki and walking somewhere. No, such a Russia would not be attractive,” he said.
Matveychev believes that Russia, which is comprehensively developed, looks to the future and has this future, will be attractive.
“It was not in vain that at this meeting with the President the issue of the export of our creative technologies, products and services to China was discussed. As you know, China loves Russian cartoons, music, games and in general a lot of Russian creativity. “If we widen this road to China, it will bring our peoples together on a human and cultural level,” he said.