may 24 reuters  londonlisted it firm softline sftlql said on tuesday turnover in its major market russia would likely shrink from april to june due to ongoing uncertainty but was confident of doubledigit growth elsewhere reporting results for the full year ended march 31 softline which provides digital solutions hardware and cloud services said turnover grew 22 yearonyear to 22 billion in reported currency softline which works closely with microsoft msfto withdrew its business outlook in march but on tuesday gave guidance for the three months from april to june saying it expected yearoveryear turnover growth of at least 15 in russia the company expects growth to decline at least midsingle digits yearoveryear based on the continued uncertainty in the market it said adding that it expected the business including its russia operations to deliver positive core earnings headquartered in london and operating in 60 countries softlines primary market is russia accounting for 51 of turnover for the full year the company said softline has been at pains to downplay its connection to russia especially in the wake of broadranging western sanctions on russian companies over moscows stated special operation in ukraine softline holding plc does not consider itself to be an entity owned by or acting on behalf or at the direction of a person connected with russia it said in early march softline this month said its russian and nonrussian businesses now differ significantly in operations priorities and gotomarket strategies and it is exploring options to adjust the groups assets and ownership structure softline on tuesday denied a report by forbes russia on monday that softline was planning to cut salaries at its russian operations by 25 and adopt more performancebased targets chief operating officer sergey chernovolenko said all companies operating in russia should be adjusting their approaches in the current circumstances and said staff numbers were not being reduced