Sanctions allow Russia revise its priorities – Russian President's aide
30 April 2014, 07:31 -- Sanctions against Russia are a dead-end policy but it stimulates the country to revise its priorities, presidential aide Andrei Fursenko told Rossiya 24 channel Tuesday.
This atmosphere, these sanctions attempted to be imposed are a unique opportunity for us to revise the situation as a whole, to reconsider our priorities at some point, to understand that we have to think about our development prospects in the first place, counting on our own abilities, and consider how it can be ideally arranged, Fursenko said.
According to the official, everybody realize that sanctions against Russia are a dead-end policy, RIA reports.
'I think that it mainly serves to internal interests of those politicians who impose these sanctions. Everybody understands: it is unlikely to change anything in terms of events that are taking place in different countries. It mainly shows how serious and aggressive some politicians can act. In terms of realistic serious approach this looks ridiculous,' the presidential aide said.
Earlier Tuesday the European Union imposed asset freezes and travel bans on 15 additional Russian and Ukrainian officials. The decision brings to 48 the number of people that the EU has put under sanctions in response to Crimea's reunification with Russia, which the West does not acknowledge, as well as Moscow current stand on Ukrainian crisis.
US Treasury Department Monday had also imposed sanctions, including asset freezes and visa bans, on seven Russian individuals as well as 17 companies linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle. Moscow has repeatedly warned that talking in the language of sanctions is inappropriate and counterproductive and warned its Western partners about the a boomerang effect that sanctions would have.
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