Views of Moscow. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 14Unprecedented in its scale illegal Western sanctions against the Russian Federation and Belarus have affected the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union, the «five» is working to level the consequences, the director of the First Department of the CIS countries said in an interview with RIA Novosti Russian Foreign Ministry Mikhail Yevdokimov. «Of course, the illegal unilateral restrictive measures introduced by the West in recent months against Russia and Belarus, unprecedented in their scale, could not but affect the member states of the EAEU due to the deep interconnectedness of the economies within the single market,» the diplomat said. The main attention of the «five» is paid to measures to level the negative consequences of Western sanctions, to provide the EAEU market with necessary goods — both industrial and agricultural. The policy of import substitution has the greatest effect in this context, «Evdokimov emphasized. Western countries have imposed multiple sanctions because of Ukraine . A number of companies announced their withdrawal from the Russian market and the closure of production facilities in the country. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that Western companies that refuse to work with Russia did so under enormous pressure, but Russia will solve all the problems with the economy that the West creates for it.
The Foreign Ministry spoke about the desire of the EAEU countries to abandon settlements in dollars
