Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexander Pankin. Archival photoMOSCOW, March 11. The interdependence of the Russian economy with other countries in some cases reaches 50%, the sanctions will not go unnoticed by the initiators, said Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper.
"Of course, there will be consequences for everyone, because we cannot, by the stroke of a pen, by the law of one of the countries or a group of countries, take and fall out or be fenced off by some kind of iron curtain or stone wall from the whole world … Many can say, that the role of Russia is insignificant, negligible. Somewhere it is a few percent, somewhere one and a half dozen percent, and somewhere 30–40% or 50%", he said.
According to him, the global economy, which has already had shock consequences from the pandemic, due to anti-Russian sanctions, will experience a huge shock. «Of course, the figures for economic growth, trade turnover, and supply shortages will be revised. Russia is a serious participant in world economic relations, so this will not just go unnoticed. And this applies not only to the flow of energy resources , raw materials and food,” Pankin emphasized. Should those who fled from Russia be allowed back?