The speaker of Council of Federation Valentina Matvienko believes that in the modern world isolation of Russia is impossible, no iron curtain should not speak.

" Today the world has become global, the world has become multi-polar, and Today Russia is so involved in the world economy, in the financial and world systems, the political system in the world that Today it is hard to imagine the isolation of Russia from all these processes that occur in the world. For this reason, no iron curtain out of the question cannot, " said Matvienko at the press conference.

However, she said that the situation with sanctions against Russia was forced to open my eyes and see a vulnerability in a number of areas as economic, financial, and other.

" There is a silver lining, and We began to think about how we can maintain economic security, they began to think on import substitution in some sectors, where We are very dependent. We realize that we need to create a national payment system to not depend on decisions of overseas partners, " said the Speaker of the Federation Council.


USA on March 17 decided to impose punishment is relatively high position of Russian politicians and Ministers of foreign Affairs of the EU countries have agreed on the introduction of penalties on the Russian and Ukrainian officials, which they consider to be guilty of " undermining the territorial integrity of Ukraine ". Then in the American list of nearly 20 Russian bureaucrats, businessmen and parliamentarians. Was enlarged and the sanctions list of the EU.

the authorities of the USA has included in the list of co-owner of the Rossiya Bank of Yuri Kovalchuk, the head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, businessmen Boris and Arkady Rotenberg and Gennady Timchenko. In addition, penalties were imposed on the Bank " Russia ".
on April 28, the U.S. included in the sanctions list 7 officials of the Russian Federation and 17 organizations, and the European Union has expanded its list of fifteen people. In the end, in the sanctions lists appear more than 40 Russian politicians and businessmen, as well as among them from the Crimea. Full list of Russian Citizens and organizations that fall under punishment, -

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