OREANDA-NEWS  The Russian authorities, against the background of aggressive actions by a number of countries against Russia, are taking measures to protect the Russian economy and Russian companies, said Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation.

"The government is really against the background of those unprecedented, completely aggressive actions against us in other countries, accordingly, we are taking measures to protect our economy, to protect our companies, first of all. This is the way to treat such decisions," Peskov told reporters.

The Russian authorities have identified ten conditions for foreigners to exit Russian business, among them, in particular, it is said about the limitation of the validity period of a permit to repurchase a Russian asset, follows from an extract from the decision of the government commission for the control of foreign investment on July 7, published the day before on the website of the Ministry of Finance of Russia.

Some of the exit conditions have already been announced earlier, for example, the sale of assets at a discount of at least 50% of the market value; the availability of an independent assessment of the market value of assets; the establishment of key performance indicators for new shareholders (owners); voluntary transfer to the budget of at least 10% of the market value of assets, if the sale is carried out with a discount of more than 90% of the market value; an obligation to pay at least 10% to the budget of the Russian Federation from half of the market value of assets.