Without cooperation with Russia, the West will not be able to cope with challenges and threats in the modern world, said the Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov.

He said that anti-minded politicians in the West should " weigh what their country could acquire from normal interaction with Russia, compared with what they have at the present time ".

" in too many real challenges, real threats. We see evidence of this every day. Without deep, real, specific and sincere cooperation with Russia to solve these problems simply will not work. Trying to infringe on us, the citizens are in harm to ourselves, " He said.

reviews Ryabkova, the behavior of anti-minded politicians in the West is a reflection of the " extremely skinny, artificially closed on fraudulent representations about what is happening in the world of consciousness."


Western countries since March has repeatedly imposed punishment on a number of Russian politicians, businessmen and organizations because of the position of Russia in Ukraine. The last case of the use of such practices began in December limits, when the head of the U.S. announced an economic blockade of the Crimea, and in the sanctions List included a number of famous figures from the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.

The list of Russian Citizens and organizations, first fell under the sentence, the material of the Fins news

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