“I know what the sanctions are for.
Sanctions are now a tool to deter geopolitical competitors, ”the senator said.
He also noted that the collective West views the world "as a collection of closed cans on the shelf."
“And when you need to get some country, this tin can is removed from the shelf, it is opened and gutted ... That is, this can is taken apart into molecules - and it turns out that everything is bad here,” he added.
Kosachev also stressed that "other banks simply do not touch."
“And they touch this [specific] one for one simple reason: in any country there are problems, but when someone - in this case, the collective West - wants to change the policy in this particular country, both internal and external, and therefore, change the leadership, it is imperative to inspire people in this country with the idea that they are worse off than others, ”he 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.