“This American sanctions policy (and the European Union one too) absolutely does not hit the target.
Well, it doesn't hit.
I don't know a single person ... well, maybe our businessmen, whose business suffers (though I never spoke to any of them), but among the statesmen whom you call officials, I have not met a single person who would really worried about it, ”he said.
Kosachev added that he "does not bother about this."
“So these sanctions have nothing to do with reality,” the senator said.
On March 2, the European Union introduced new sanctions against Russia due to the situation with Alexei Navalny. On the same day, the United States also announced new sanctions against Moscow.