Report: UK Paul Smith says to stop supplies to Russia

MOSCOW, Feb 3 (PRIME) -- U.K. clothes retailer Paul Smith will discontinue supplies to Russia in the wake of criticism on the media, newspaper Daily Mail reported on Friday citing a representative for the company,

"Paul Smith is pulling out of Russia after the Mail confronted him over his commercial ties to the rogue state," the newspaper reported.

The representative said that Paul Smith would demand that its franchisee in Russia, Bosco di Ciliegi of Mikhail Kusnirovich, closed the stores and discontinue supplies to the distributor.

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