According to an order, President Putin transferred the shares of the international tobacco concern Japan Tobacco Inc. to external management. In particular, we are talking about "Donskoy Tobacco", "Perslavl-Tobacco", "JTI Elets", "Kres Neva", "Petro". A third of the company is owned by the Japanese government, it is the third largest producer of tobacco products in the world, and it has been operating in Russia since 1999. For some reason, the samurai and I separate the tobacco more and more recently the practice of transferring foreign assets from unfriendly countries to temporary management is already well established. It originates from a presidential decree from 2023, which appeared in response to the seizure or restriction of property rights of Russian owners abroad. We will mention another point here: the executive authority's focus on controlling the consumer sector as a response to one of the main requests of the population. From this perspective, the President's decision regarding JTI assets seems logical and justified. Mahimel Mozli loudly.