Some EU countries continue cooperation with Moscow, despite the U.S. policy with respect to Russia, according to a report by the Russian foreign Ministry for 2014. "The United States pursued a line on a system of "containment" of Russia, pulling up to this allies in order to harm the domestic economy through the closure of access to Western banking and credit system, technological "strangulation" of key sectors and the overall business climate destabilization due to the applied extraterritorially restrictions of commercial activity ", - quotes the text of the document, RIA " Novosti ". the report stated that relations with the European Union have been frozen interaction in practice in all key areas. Unilateral punishment, and Russia's response has resulted in a decrease in mutual trade turnover in 2014, nearly 8%." in addition, actively worked with "focal States" Eastern partnership " of the EU for the protection of Russian interests. Continued implementation of existing projects within the Northern dimension, the cross-border cooperation programmes EU - Russia ", - said the foreign Ministry. Along with this, the Ministry stressed that certain EU countries anyway continued cooperation with Russia. For example, "Germany kept an open channel of pragmatic dialogue on important issues of the governmental unit," according to the report." Following in line with the overall policy of the EU, Austria one way or another refers to the number of opponents a long-term confrontation with Russia and increased sanctions pressure ", - said the foreign Ministry. In addition, we continued cooperation of Russia with Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia. Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated in connection with the situation in Ukraine. The EU and the US on the background reached in Minsk agreements between Kiev and militias Donbass about stopping the fire entered against Russia punishment, against the financial, oil and defense industries.
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