Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin said that anti-Russian sanctions caused stagnation in the European Union. He writes about this subject in his own book telegram channel.
“Western companies that announced their withdrawal from our country lost more than 103 billion dollars. This money remained in Russia. By the way, by the end of the year our country’s GDP growth will be 3.5 percent,” Volodin said, citing material from The New York Times.
He added that anti-Russian sanctions were imposed under the dictates of the United States, which continues to trade important goods such as uranium with Russia. At the same time, as the State Duma speaker noted, the European Union expects a recession in the next six months, for the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
Before that, Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin statedHe said that nearly 19 thousand sanctions were imposed on Russia by the European Union.
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