‘We may be doing one thing unsuitable,’ Carnegie suppose tank VP says about Rolls-Royce gross sales hitting all-time excessive in Russia

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The recognition of Rolls-Royce automobiles in Russia is seemingly an indication of underwhelming efficiency for the Carnegie Endowment for Worldwide Peace, judging by the phrases of its Russia-focussed vice chairman.

The UK-based automaker celebrated its best-ever yr on the Russian market, reporting final month that in 2020 it managed to beat the earlier yr’s file and delivered over 200 automobiles to Russian purchasers. Russia “has cemented its standing of being the most important marketplace for the model on continental Europe,” it reported.

One posh automotive producer’s excellent news is one other think-tank official’s unhealthy information. Andrew Weiss, vice chairman for research on the Carnegie Endowment for Worldwide Peace (CEIP), remarked on Monday that the information meant that “we may be doing one thing unsuitable.”

Weiss “oversees analysis in Washington and Moscow on Russia and Eurasia” for the suppose tank, having taken the job after working in a Russia-focused capability for the RAND Company, in keeping with his bio on the CEIP web site. Beforehand he served as an adviser to Presidents George H. W. Bush and Invoice Clinton. The influential overseas coverage suppose tank itself has over a century of historical past beneath its proverbial belt, although its Moscow department was ‘solely’ opened in 1994.

The senior CEIP official didn’t clarify what precisely saddened him in the truth that Russia had an abundance of rich people who can afford forking out, for example, $ 370,000 for a brand-new Rolls-Royce Wraith. Presumably he meant that the said coverage of Western nations to punish Russian elites for backing its authorities has been a failure – at the very least by way of punishing their motor fleets.

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