Dmitry Peskov announced the mobilization of the Russian economy due to Western sanctions. Peskov emphasized that business is happy to develop vacated niches and does it no worse than foreign companies.

“This suggests that sanctions bring problems, but they do not work,” the Kremlin spokesman added. Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his address to the Federal Assembly, said that the Russian Economy is becoming more complex, technologically advanced and non-resource-based. The Russian authorities made it so that Russia began to receive dividends from the sanctions.