EU flags near the headquarters of the European Parliament in BrusselsMOSCOW, Apr 6 Financial Newspaper The Times, referring to a certain document, claims that on Wednesday the EU will discuss the imposition of sanctions against the head of Sberbank German Gref, billionaire Oleg Deripaska and a number of other Russian businessmen. According to the publication, Ozon CEO Alexander Shulgin, businessman Boris Rotenberg, and also Said Kerimova, who controls Russia's largest gold mining company Polyus. A number of Western countries have imposed new sanctions against the Russian Federation due to the situation in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the policy of containment and weakening of Russia is a long-term strategy of the West, and the sanctions dealt a serious blow to the entire world economy. According to him, the main goal of the West is to worsen the lives of millions of people. Putin also said that the United States and the European Union had effectively defaulted on their obligations to Russia, freezing its foreign exchange reserves. He added that the current events draw a line under the global dominance of the West in both politics and economics. and impose sanctions
