Punishment from the European Union and the US destabilized financial markets and macroeconomic unbalance the situation, notified on.

on Thursday, the head of the Russian Cabinet of Ministers Dmitry Medvedev approved the basic directions of activity of the government of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2018.

"Then the events that followed, including a sharp reduction in the prices of key items of Russian exports, rising geopolitical tensions and the imposition of sanctions restrictions from the EU and the US, led to the destabilization of financial markets and the overall macroeconomic imbalance provisions. The trend of declining GDP in real terms, very quickly accelerated inflation dynamics and the growth of the budget deficit, " - said in the text.


Western countries since March 2014 several times already imposed penalties because Russia's position on Ukraine. The last case of the use of such practices were the limits imposed in March 2015, when expanded sanctions list of the USA.

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