Medvedev: Washington’s sanctions against Russia don’t add any optimism for the economy or for the people

New sanctions against Russia could return relations with Russia and the countries that implement them back to the 1980s, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday. Ria Novosti writes about this.

Washington’s sanctions against Russia do not add any optimism for the economy or for the people, Medvedev added.

«Any sanction is evil. They don’t add any optimism for the economy or for the people and never bring any obvious success,” Medvedev said during a government meeting.
“We will simply return to the ‘80s in relations with states that are introducing these sanctions,” Medvedev said during a government meeting.

On Wednesday, The US Treasury introduced a so-called Sectoral Sanctions Identification List that affects companies and institutions in defense, energy and banking sectors of the Russian economy over its the Ukrainian crisis.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the new sanctions required a careful look but warned that they could bring the US-Russian ties to a dead end.

“Naturally, all our social responsibilities will be fulfilled; we have enough money for it. But, in addition, we will have to pay more attention to expenditures for defense and security,” he said.

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