Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday.
“We understand perfectly well that the sanctions imposed against us will not go away in the foreseeable future, and even in the longer term,” the diplomat told a roundtable with Russian ambassadors in Moscow.
Russia “does not need” relief “not because we choose isolationism or self-sufficiency,” but because “the West decided to destroy the world economy for the sake of teaching Russia a lesson.”
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