“The economy withstood the first blow of the sanctions, we got the necessary time to rebuild production chains, logistics and structural changes in the economy,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

According to the minister, the priority action plan includes almost 250 measures, 193 of which have been prepared and all the necessary decisions have been made.

Earlier, the director of the North America Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Darchiev, said that the Russian economy would withstand new US sanctions.

Vladimir Bruter, an employee of the International Institute for Humanitarian and Political Studies, commented on the situation with European sanctions in an interview with the Economics Today FBA.