Vladimir Putin says it is “impossible” to isolate Russia in the modern world

The Russian President, Vladimir Putinassured today that it is “impossible” to isolate in the modern world Russia with sanctions for the Russian military campaign in Ukraine and that the country will work with those partners that still support it.

“We are not going to isolate ourselves. In the modern world there is no way to strictly isolate someone and it is completely impossible to (isolate) a country as big as Russia”, he pointed out during a visit to the Russian Vostochni Cosmodrome, in the far east of the country.

“So we will work with those partners who want to interact” even with Russiasaid the head of the Kremlin, who traveled to the Amur region accompanied by the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko.

The head of state assured that, under the Western sanctions imposed in 2014 for the annexation of Russia of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and its support for pro-Russian separatists in Donbas, for example Russia’s agriculture has become a high-tech industry.

“Even the volume of exports exceeded that of arms sales, and significantly, by 10,000 million dollars,” he said.

Putin pointed out that in 1961 the USSR was in complete isolation from a technological point of view, so the sanctions were total, but great milestones were achieved such as the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite and the first cosmonaut to travel to outer space, among others. other space achievements.

“We did everything in conditions of complete technological isolation, we achieved such great successes,” he said.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin estimated last Friday at more than 6,000 sanctions imposed on his country, which has been put in the most complicated situation since the fall of the USSR in 1991, with year-on-year inflation that skyrocketed in April to 16.6% and a GDP that will contract around 10%, according to the former Minister of Finance and president of the Chamber of Accounts, Alexei Kudrin.

Source: Elcomercio

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