Dmitry Medvedev. Archival photoSt. Petersburg, 30 Jun. The hope that the West will have the courage to admit its miscalculations and repent of its own stupidity remains, if not, we will live without them, said Deputy Head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. «Certain hopes remain, hope, as you know, dies last. This is a weak hope, this is the hope that our former Western partners will have the courage to admit their strategic miscalculations, which, according to the same UN, have affected more than 1.5 billion people and provoked a surge in global inflation, food shortages and increasing poverty. vicious practice of illegal extraterritorial application of legislation and a discriminatory attitude towards everything that has Russian roots. Just repent of your own stupidity,» he said at the plenary session of the 10th St. Petersburg International Legal Forum. «If this does not happen, we will live without them. How is it been in the 20th century for decades, especially since the world today is not at all reduced to the borders of the western of these countries,» Medvedev added. 
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