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Why does Russia want to limit foreign ownership of tech firms?

A planned law to cap foreign stakes in technology companies to 20% is thought to have originated in the office of President Vladimir Putin.

Critics fear it may be a setback for the Russian technology industry, but as Dr Jenny Mathers from the University of Aberyswyth tells the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Russell Padmore, the law may be motivated more by politics than economics.

(Picture: A mobile phone with a Russian banking app. Donat Sorokin/TASS/Getty Images.)

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