In the modern world isolation of Russia is impossible, no iron curtain must not out of the question, said the speaker of Council of Federation Valentina Matvienko. " 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 ", - quotes Matvienko RIA " Novosti ". However, she said that the situation with sanctions against Russia were forced to open my eyes and see a vulnerability in a number of areas as economic, financial and otherwise." 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 Federation Council speaker. Recall, in March the West, not recognizing the unification of Russia and Crimea, has imposed punishment on a number of Russian politicians and businessmen. USA on April 28 in connection with the situation in Ukraine was included in the sanctions list of the 7 Russian nationals and 17 organizations, widening it to almost 50 politicians and entrepreneurs from Russia and Ukraine. The European Union has extended sanctions list of Russian citizens for another fifteen, and later at 13 people, to 61 people. The President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin, head of Russian Foreign Minister S. Lavrov Century, and the majority of officials, deputies and large Authorized business many times emphasized that entered against Russia punishment from the US and the EU will hit boomerangs by the initiators of these restrictions.
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