Even in the conditions of the anti-punishment can achieve economic increase, said former Finance Minister and head of the Department of civil initiatives Alexei Kudrin. " But you have to understand that punishment will not increase, we need a vector that will eventually be used to carry out the steps for the settlement (the situation around Ukraine). Then the punishment will be reduced. We have a feeling that the punishment will be increased, " said Kudrin, who is quoted by TASS." If the punishment will increase it by 50% will reduce the effectiveness of the proposed measures, which are discussed today, " he said. On Thursday German printed edition Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten said that the leaders of the countries of the European Union did not want to take the punishment and move on rapprochement with Russia after a phone call between U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Remember, the first day of the week, EU leaders called for the preservation of the anti-punishment. In addition, last week the European Parliament addressed the Council, urging them to accept the punishment is relatively Russia in the nuclear and financial sectors in the absence of progress in the settlement of the Ukrainian fall. However, on Wednesday the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia S. Lavrov Century said that the refusal of the anti-Russian punishment supports almost fifty percent of the EU countries. According to sources, in support of the lifting of sanctions against Russia are Austria, Hungary, Italy, Cyprus, Slovakia, France and the Czech Republic.
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