“In recent years, despite the sanctions of Europe and the United States, Russia has developed many industries from scratch ... The new sanctions will in no way affect the speed of construction of Nord Stream 2.
The offshore section of the pipeline does not need modernization: it has gone through all the necessary modernizations recently, ”Ananskikh said.
The MP stressed that the next sanctions do not affect the project and Russia in any way.
“It's just a flutter of air for pre-election campaign speeches, I don't see any other point in it.
The US leaders themselves say that they cannot come up with any new sanctions: all the sanctions that could have been invented have already been invented, and this did not affect anything, ”the parliamentarian said.
Earlier, the US State Department announced that the new sanctions measures were extended to firms that provide services or funds for the modernization or installation of equipment on ships for laying the gas pipeline.