Putin said that “zero effect” Russian sanctions on the United States – RBC

Russian President Vladimir Putin

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The sanctions imposed by Russia in response to the West, never touched the US – the Americans “do not care” they said at the St. Petersburg forum, Vladimir Putin . According to him, suffered from kontrsanktsy only Europe

The War of sanctions has no effect on the US economy, acknowledged Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to him, he suffered from Russian kontrsanktsy imposed in response to Western sanctions, only Europe and he can not understand why the Europeans agree to tolerate it.

«Sanctions [as] they relate to the United States? Yes it does not concern you. In general, they do not care about these sanctions, because the consequences of our response to them, they are not reflected. In Europe, recognized, and the United States do not affect the zero effect. But the Americans tell their partners that need to be patient. Why do they suffer, I do not understand. Well want – let the suffering “, -. Putin said at a plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

The fact that the US economy does not suffer from the deterioration of relations with Russia, Putin said at the end of 2014, shortly after both countries have towards each other sanctions. “We have a falling turnover with European countries. However, there are some positive things that when I looked at the statistics today, I was even a little surprised. For example, we have an increase in trade with other countries. For example, the United States trade grew by 7%, while imports from the US increased by 23% “, – Putin said in December 2014 at a meeting with representatives of the State Duma and the Federation Council

Later that with. the introduction of sanctions the US government acted solely in their own interests, said Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. “There is an example of a country with which we have in recent months has not decreased turnover. This is the United States. With all of those sanctions, pressure, that is. Immediately clear someone was interested in sanctions. With Europe fell, fell with Belarus, and other countries. And with the United States has not decreased, “- said Dvorkovich April 2015

The fact that the United States continue to cooperate with Russia in the most important for themselves spheres, whereas Europe is strictly observes the sanctions policy and carries large losses. stated, and the Europeans themselves. “When the US economy is favorable, the US is ready to make a” break “in a new Cold War with Russia”, – noted in an article published in 2015 in the magazine Spiegel. At year end, Russian trade representative in the United States, Alexander Stadnik said that trade turnover between the two countries still fell by about a third. According to the Federal Customs Service, the reduction of trade turnover between Russia and the United States was in 2015 of 28.1%, with the EU countries – 37.6%. However, the actual US losses from the reduction of trade turnover is really small, since Russia and sanctions before the war was one of the US’s largest trading partners. At the same time for the European Union, Russia has always been one of the main markets.

In February 2016, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Russia Maria Zakharova said that the United States have benefited from the imposition of sanctions against Russia, while the EU lost. “From the European Union sanctions lost. Won the United States. They called to isolate Russia, but it is with them Russian trade grew. In relations with our natural partners, we were driven back decades, and the US, who are overseas, increased their trade cooperation with us. Fantastic! So make your conclusions, who benefits from it. Several European countries are suffering from this situation, it slows down their own economic growth “, – said then Zakharov

Come on opened this week in St. Petersburg, the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy also acknowledged that the Cold War with. Russia is not in the interest of Europeans, but suggested that the first Russian to lift the sanctions. “I am among those who believe that it is necessary to remove the sanctions that we have and without it enough problems. We can not afford to suffer, and the strongest must reach out first. The strongest – Russia and it is President Putin, “- said Sarkozy. On Friday, the president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov rejected Sarkozy’s proposal, comparing the unilateral abolition of Russian kontrsanktsy with “charity».

Food embargo on EU countries, USA, Canada, Australia and Norway was introduced August 7th, 2014 in response to sanctions because of the situation in Ukraine and the Crimea. Albania, Montenegro, Iceland, and Liechtenstein (1 January 2016) Ukraine – later blacklisted five more countries have been added. Initially, all types produced in the abovementioned countries of cattle meat were banned in Russia and poultry, pork, fish and crustaceans, and shellfish, dairy products, cheeses, sausages, vegetables, fruit, roots and nuts. Later, in the list of prohibited products has been amended several times. In June 2015 the validity of the Russian embargo was extended to August 2016. At the end of May 2016 Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed the AI ​​to make proposals to extend the embargo until the end of 2017, explaining his decision to care for the interests of the domestic agribusiness.