Passers-by on Vasilyevsky Spusk in Moscow. File photoMOSCOW, July 21No, even the toughest restrictions have ever led to a change in the positions of countries, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, speaking about new sanctions against Russia. The seventh package of EU sanctions provides for the lifting of some of the restrictions.Zakharova: EU anti-Russian sanctions are not really accepted by Brussels «No, there is no such feeling. So far, with enviable persistence, the European Union is trying to generate new sanctions, although it is clear to us that no sanctions, even the toughest ones, have ever led to this in any part of the world that those countries against whom they are introduced somehow changed their position. Moreover, this does not happen with our country either,» the presidential press secretary said. «We see that the European Union prefers, even maniacally, to adhere to those sanctions which harm their own interests, and, most importantly, not so much their interests, but rather harm their population, which is obviously beginning to suffer from these sanctions and from the consequences that these EU decisions cause. In this regard, the Americans. They very quickly, using their flexible system, introduce licenses that provide for the removal of sanctions where it is beneficial to the United States itself,» Pesk added. ov. After the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, Western countries began to impose sanctions against the Russian Federation, in particular, on Russian energy resources. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the policy of containing and weakening Russia is a long-term strategy of the West, and the sanctions dealt a serious blow to the entire global economy. Peskov compared the European bureaucracy with the Soviet one
