“Sanctions stimulate the revival of Russian industry, provide our agriculture with favorable conditions for further growth in order to reach full food self-sufficiency,” Ryabkov said in an interview with TASS.
According to him, Russia remains among the leaders in the field of high and advanced technologies.
The Deputy Foreign Minister stressed that "Russia's development can, of course, be complicated, but Washington cannot stop it."
Earlier, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Andrei Belousov said that the West is attempting a global economic blockade of Russia.
The First Deputy Prime Minister also said that the "drawdown" of the Russian economy is one of the main risks.
The leading expert of the Center for Political Technologies, Candidate of Economic Sciences Nikita Maslennikov, in an interview with the Economics Today, spoke about the importance of import substitution.