NYT: the North-South transport corridor will be inaccessible to Western sanctions. “This will be a continuous railway line with a length of almost 7 thousand km.
And it will be beyond the reach of Western sanctions,” the newspaper concluded. Earlier, Deputy Minister of Economic Development Vladimir Ilyichev said that the share of friendly countries in Russia’s foreign trade at the end of 2023 amounted to more than 75%. The authors emphasized that this road will be aimed at increasing the export of Russian goods and will also become an additional route for trade between Russia and China.