Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko. File photoMAPUTO, Mozambique, June 1With a new package of sanctions, including a partial embargo on Russian oil, the West only harms itself and reduces the competitiveness of its economy, the quality of life of its people, it looks like a Russophobic agony, said Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matvienko, emphasizing that «Russia and the Russian budget do not EU leaders reached on Tuesday night a political agreement on the sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions, which includes, among other things, the gradual imposition of an embargo on oil imports from Russia. The ban will only affect supplies by sea, and the oil coming through the Druzhba pipeline is not subject to restrictions. European Union, because, it is clear that this will seriously affect their quality of life … Secondly, everyone today is loudly saying: «energy crisis», «global hunger». As soon as this decision (on a new package of anti-Russian sanctions — ed.) was accepted, the stock exchanges immediately reacted with a serious increase in the cost of oil. But in whose interests is it — calmly, without this Russophobic hysteria — who did they harm? Only their economy, which will have a decrease in competitiveness and a decrease in the quality of life of its own citizens, «she said Matvienko, commenting on the partial embargo on Russian oil supplies to journalists. Matvienko stressed that «Russia, the Russian budget will not lose anything,» because after the pandemic a significant recovery in the economies of most countries has begun, so the Russian Federation can reorient oil to other markets, «the demand for which is huge.» «On the world market, only a certain volume of production, a certain volume of oil sales. No one will supply us with another one from the Moon, so we can reorient the first one. Second… we need to use more oil in our own country. Refining more oil, developing petrochemistry, building new plants to get additional profit, and not drive crude oil. I think that this will encourage us,» she added. In addition, if we assume that Russia does not quickly rebuild now, then, according to Matvienko, «we will not have losses,» because the price of oil will rise significantly, and those volumes , which we will not deliver to Europe, will be covered by rising oil prices. «Therefore, European citizens harm only themselves here. I think that they have already run out of steam, already the seventh package, I don’t know, I’m even at a loss what else I can think of. It already looks like such a Russophobic agony. Absolutely unfounded, senseless, idiocy, in my opinion,» she concluded.
