Natalia Shmakov. The economy should force the government to recognize the true desire of their countries, for this reason it is necessary as soon as possible to cross the implications of the imposed punishment relative to Russia and retaliatory punishment from the capital of Russia, said the head of the Board of Directors of the Bank "Intesa" (Russian Italian subsidiary Bank of Intesa Sanpaolo group) and the Association "conoscere Eurasia" Antonio Fallico. Speaking on Thursday at a Symposium on the economic relations between Italy and Russia, which took place in Florence, he clarified that the Russian Federation " restored ", " the ruble is stable, and its fundamentals are strong ".

"in the near future in the Russian capital, the demand for Italian goods will return to growth, and our organization must continue to create what the head (Vladimir) Putin called" special relationship between Italy and Russia ", - said Fallico, quoted by the press service of the Association.

in his vision, it's time to leave what happened in the past year, and start again, for example, held yesterday in Milan meeting with Putin and Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi and large Eurasian projects." One of these projects is a multi-billion dollar project "silk road" implemented by China and the Eurasian Union and which predusmatrivaet the construction of the "economic belt" length 8 thousand kilometers, "- said the head of the Board of Directors of the Bank " Intesa ".

he also said that the punishment of the EU towards Russia and its retaliatory measures have led in 2014 to the reduction of trade turnover between Italy and the Russian Federation on 5, 3 billion euros.

in connection with the situation in Ukraine, EU countries, USA and Canada in the spring of the past year have introduced against Russia 1st batch of sentences, then it was expanded. In response, Russia has imposed in the last month of summer 2014 retaliatory punishment which has spread to the products of the agricultural sector from the EU, USA, Canada and some other countries that have joined the anti-Russian sanctions policy. Moscow has stated many times that is not a party to the conflict in Ukraine, the Russian side officially participates as an intermediary in the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict.

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