UFA, June 28 Russia and Belarus are doing everything to ensure immunity to sanctions, developing countertrade, which allows preserve and reorient production, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
«Russia and Belarus are doing everything to ensure the stability of their economies, their immunity to the negative impact of sanctions, and naturally, it is difficult, one might say, unrealistic, to achieve success in this matter without a close interregional partnership,» Putin said in his address to the participants of the Forum of Regions of Russia and Belarus.
He noted that in the conditions of an unfavorable external situation, the refusal of a number of Western countries to cooperate and the closure of the markets of unfriendly states, the Russian and Belarusian regions are intensively developing countertrade, and this helps to maintain production, refocus on deliveries to consumers of the two countries.