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Medvedev: U.S. Will Never Lift Sanctions on Russia

  • 2 Apr 08:59

Washington will never remove sanctions on Moscow because this is what its policies have been based on for years, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said while answering questions from users of theVKontaktesocial network on Friday. “I can tell you frankly: they will never remove sanctions on Russia because their policies – at least in the past 100 years – have been based on the continuous use of sanctions against our country, no matter what it is called, the Soviet Union or the Russian Federation. There hasn’t been a single historical period when there were no sanctions at all,” Medvedev said, according toIzvestya. The Russian prime. Read more...

Russia's counter-sanctions will not be endless, says Medvedev

  • 12 Aug 10:21

Russian agriculture got a powerful boost when counter-measures were introduced in response to anti-Russian sanctions, but these embargoes will not remain in place forever, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said. "Our agriculture received quite a powerful boost from the introduction of restrictive counter-measures or the food import embargo. Recently, we extended these restrictions by another year, and one has to admit that this helped agrarian firms make some achievements," Medvedev said at the first meeting of the governmental import-substitution commission on Aug.11. Agrarian firms confirm that "their working front has become wider and opportunities. Read more...