The Foreign Ministry said that Russia has not yet begun to respond to sanctions Western sanctions against Russia will lead to negative consequences for the global economy, they warn on Smolenskaya Square: despite the fact that Russia

RUSSIA has practically not yet begun to use retaliatory measures against Western sanctions, Dmitry Birichevsky, DIRECTOR of the department for economic cooperation at the Russian Foreign Ministry, said on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel. The broadcast was on VKontakte.

Birichevsky called the measures against Russia "outright robbery" and "raider seizure." He stated that the "double-edged sanctions weapon" will affect all countries of the world.

According to him, the authors of the restrictions do not understand that Russia is sufficiently strongly integrated into the global economy. At the same time, Russian enterprises are actively involved in production chains and it will be difficult to replace them, he noted.

The United States , European countries and some Asian countries have imposed sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin and other top Russian officials, billionaires, a number of banks and state corporations. The EU has frozen almost half of the Central Bank's gold and foreign exchange reserves. The US banned the import of Russian energy products, including crude oil . The European Commission announced plans to reduce dependence on gas and oil from Russia by two-thirds by the end of 2022. The number of sanctions against Russia exceeded 7 thousand