Russia (bbabo.net), - President Vladimir Putin is confident that Western countries will impose sanctions against Russia in any case. "There is some reason today, for example, connected with the events in Ukraine, or there is no such reason. It will be found, because the goal is different. The goal is to slow down the development, in this case, Russia and Belarus," he stressed to the press. -conference after negotiations with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko.

The Russian leader pointed out that this sanctions pressure is an absolutely illegitimate, gross violation of international law, "which those who are now talking about this care about only when it is beneficial for them." "And when it's not profitable, they gladly forget about all the norms of public international law," Putin said.

In the world, many countries are facing the consequences of various kinds of restrictions, even US allies, the Russian President noted. “They just shut their mouths, keep silent, endure, but, as I said many, many years ago, no one likes this: they don’t like secondary sanctions, and they don’t like direct sanctions pressure,” he said.

Sooner or later, this "boil" must break through, the head of the Russian state has no doubts. "But today it is important for us to raise the level of our economic sovereignty and be more capable, modern, give new impetus to the development of modern areas of the economy," Vladimir Putin described methods of countering sanctions.

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