nissan motor co said tuesday that it would exit the russian market and book a loss of about 1000 billion yen 6862 million from the sale of its local unit the japanese automaker said it would sell all shares of nissan manufacturing russia llc to moscowbased central research and development automobile engine institute for 1 euro 97 cents nissan suspended production at its plant in st petersburg in march due to supplychain disruptions following russias invasion of ukraine nissan said it had been monitoring the situation closely since then but there were no signs of the business environment changing