Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko. File photoASHGABAT, May 12.Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko believes that the establishment of cooperation that would not depend on the will of extra-regional forces will help reduce the negative consequences of illegal sanctions. , attempts to replace it with dubious rules that are applied in favor of one group of states of the collective West,» the parliamentarian said, speaking at the plenary session of the Inter-Parliamentary Forum of Central Asian countries and the Russian Federation.Vučić told how new anti-Russian ESO sanctions threaten Serbia. She stressed that Russia has always been against such a policy, proceeded from the principles of ensuring common security in the Eurasian space, and condemned the practice of unilateral sanctions. «History shows that ordinary people of all suffer from restrictive measures countries without exception,» she said. According to Matvienko, it is possible to reduce the negative consequences of sanctions «through building cooperation that would not depend on the will of extra-regional forces.» «Every state has the right to an independent policy,» she concluded. Western countries have introduced several packages of sanctions against the Russian Federation because of 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. He added that current events draw a line under the global dominance of the West in both politics and economics. According to him, Russia is not going to isolate itself, it cannot be strictly isolated in the modern world.