Certain Russian organizations support the idea to perpetuate the Russian retaliatory measures on punishment of the European Union, said Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a press-conference on results of negotiations with Finnish counterpart Antti Rinne. As explained Medvedev, Brussels "messed up" relations with Moscow, for this reason, " he now asks them to restore ". The Prime Minister has not excluded that the situation can improve if Ukraine will make progress in resolving their " internal conflict ". The head of government noted that bilateral contacts with individual European States are now more important than relations with the EU in General. 5 years ago relations between Russia and the West deteriorated over the situation in Ukraine. In the summer of 2014, the EU and the US from point penalties against private individuals and organizations turned to measures against entire sectors of the Russian economy. In response, Moscow has restricted imports of food items. in June of 2019 Vladimir Putin said that, according to expert data, Russia in 2014 fell short about $ 50 billion, the European Union 240 billion US 17 billion, Japan - 27 billion. <span style="color:darkgray