💬 V.V. Putin: You know that now the entire global system of economic relations is going through a stage of fundamental and, as just said, irreversible changes . They are due to the fact that the previous model of globalization is being replaced by a multipolar model. < …> Such a change in the landscape of the world economy, the emergence of new leaders to the fore, is an objective and in many ways a natural process.
The elite of Western countries is trying to artificially restrain growth , as they believe, on the global periphery, which they are used to exploiting, using as a resource, as a source of rent, simply as a colony . To do this, they resort to sanctions restrictions, for example, rocking the political situation and provoking conflicts in entire macro-regions in an attempt to maintain their elusive dominance .
☝️ Despite any external pressure, clicking teeth, knocking on the table, whispering in the ear, there are people – leaders of countries, and powerful countries, who do not succumb to this pressure and are guided primarily by their own national interests , and they fit into that model, which we offer for development.
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🇷🇺 Russia is the largest economy in Europe and in terms of growth rates it is now ahead of all the leading countries of the European Union. At the same time, the so-called basic non-resource industries occupy an increasingly large share in the structure of Russia’s economic growth.
We are interested in keeping our market open and competitive . This is the key to development, an incentive for the qualitative growth of domestic business and the entire Russian economy. Russia does not expel anyone and does not close itself off from anyone.
You know, you can throw loud slogans and threats at us as much as you like, but, in the end, this is the business of some Western politicians who intend to abolish Russia. But all this hype is not able to cancel the immutable fact – working with Russia and in Russia is profitable. It was profitable, and now it is profitable, and it will be profitable.
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