OUR Russia announced today that it has imposed sanctions on a number of its citizens European Union in response to what Moscow calls “unfriendly anti-Russian” policies.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it was banning high-ranking military personnel, high-ranking security officials and representatives of European Union arms companies from entering Russia, without naming them.

Putin: Western sanctions are a shame

Earlier today, speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Vladimir Putin called Western sanctions short-sighted and stressed that they pose a danger to the whole world.

As the Russian president said, the West has undermined the world economy with an “aggressive” attempt to impose its dominance on the whole world, but the Asia-Pacific region is on the rise.

“Irreversible, even tectonic changes have taken place in international relations. The role of dynamic, promising countries and regions of the world, especially the Asia-Pacific region, has significantly increased,” he noted.

Putin said the sanctions had replaced the coronavirus pandemic as the main threat to the global economy.

“I mean the sanctions fever of the West with its shameful, aggressive attempts to impose behavior patterns on other countries, deprive them of national sovereignty and undermine their desires,” he said.

“This is not unprecedented. This is a policy that the West has collectively followed for decades. Western countries are trying their best to preserve the past world order, which is only for their benefit, to force everyone to live by the miserable rules that they themselves have come up with and systematically violate, which are constantly changing in their favor, depending on current conditions,” the Russian leader said. said.

With information from APE/PE