In fact, there are several reasons for the increase in the volume of illegal product supplies to the country. The main reason is the decline in the population's effective demand, which is switching to the consumption of cheaper goods. Manufacturers from China and Southeast Asia are ready to offer rapidly impoverished Russians products at low prices and in a fairly wide range. If before the crisis, preferences, including those of the poorer segments, began to lean in favor of the Russian producer – despite the fact that domestic enterprises never offered wide product lines and low prices like their eastern neighbors – now the situation has changed dramatically.
During the crisis, the consumer motto 'Buy Russian' unfortunately becomes irrelevant. In these conditions, Chinese manufacturers, not burdened by a huge tax burden and not heavily indebted, feel quite confident in the Russian market. Whatever segment of the Russian economy is considered, be it tires in Moscow or milk in Barnaul, demand for products is falling due to the decline in the population's purchasing power.
Note that in addition to the heavy tax burden on Russian enterprises, factors in the decline in sales (apart from the objective factor of the crisis) are often large uncovered credit lines and inept pricing policies. Hence the next reason for the increase in the share of counterfeit products - the sluggishness of management of Russian enterprises in the new conditions, as a result of which (on their own!) traditional sales markets are lost. And nature abhors a vacuum.
So, what should the average consumer do? Watch as customs officers destroy mountains of cheap, albeit counterfeit, products, while producers 'protected' by Russian legislation continuously raise prices, and some even shut down production and leave the market?
Probably, supporting domestic producers by destroying counterfeit consumer goods is, first and foremost, a blasphemous measure towards the country's own citizens who cannot afford to buy expensive goods in brand-name stores. At the same time, such a measure is a 'disservice' to the producer himself, for whom hothouse conditions are artificially created that do not actually yield positive results.
Thus, the barbaric destruction of counterfeits (and sometimes not destruction, but simply their resale at higher prices) does not lead to the development of efficient domestic production and increased domestic demand, but rather triggers a new round of development of corruption schemes. And meanwhile, the Russian producer finally loses its position in the domestic market.