Continuation of contacts with Turkey demanded hundreds of Russian companies – Rosbalt.RU

 The Russian government has submitted a list of Turkish-Russian contracts with the exception of justification under sanctions, informed the Deputy Minister of Economic Development Alexei Likhachev.

 Applications, according to TASS, hundreds of companies have filed. “Inquiries have been hundreds, let alone what the government decides,” – said the official

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 It is noted that a request has been submitted and Sberbank.

 Meanwhile, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said today at the “margins” of the Munich Security Conference that the authorities can not remove the restrictive counter-measures in respect of certain countries or sectors. “Frankly, I have repeatedly met with colleagues from different European countries, employers and, by the way, politicians, heads of the governments of these countries, which I was told:” Remove from us the restrictive measures in a particular sector. ” But we can not do this “, – said the head of the government

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 According to him, this for two reasons: “First, because these restrictive measures are reciprocal in nature and, secondly, it does not allow you to make the WTO rules, otherwise it will look like a selective approach

 Russia imposed sanctions against Turkey in late November, after the Turkish Air Force shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber. In response, Russia abolished the visa-free regime with Turkey, banned travel agencies selling trips to Turkey, and imposed a ban on the import of vegetables and fruit.