The European Union and the United States have exhausted their arsenal of means to curb Russia's development, said State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.

So he commented on the sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions approved on the eve of the EU.

“Taking new sanctions measures, Western politicians are forced to choose between a bad and a very bad scenario for the economies and citizens of their countries,” Volodin wrote on his Telegram channel.

He recalled that for Russia there may be losses from the ban on oil exports to Europe, but due to the rise in energy prices provoked by sanctions and the reorientation of Russian oil sales markets to the Asian direction, the costs can be fully compensated.

At the same time, Europe, due to record high energy prices, “will overpay more than €250 billion annually,” Volodin admitted.

“Washington is doing everything to ensure that the main burden from the implementation of sanctions falls on European countries.

It deliberately weakens the economies of the EU states in order to make them even more dependent on the United States, ”the parliamentarian emphasized.

He also noted that Russia, having overcome the sanctions, will only become stronger.

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Senator of the Federation Council Olga Kovitidi, in a conversation with RT, noted that today the situation for the collective West is losing.

“Russia is isolated from the West, but at the same time the ruble is growing, Russian energy resources are in demand, and we are also doing well with food.

While the West is also isolated, isolated from the rest of the world.

The most serious world players such as China, India, Russia, and dozens of other states in Asia, Africa and Latin America do not support the West.

The European Union has not been able to create a single bloc and offer its attractive political and economic alternative to the Chinese One Belt, One Road initiative,” she recalled.

According to the senator, the deterioration of the situation on the world food market and migration flows "will only push the inevitable European fiasco."

“The West is a clay pot in the copper shop of the modern world order,” Kovitidi said.

In turn, Yuri Pochta, professor at the Department of Comparative Political Science at RUDN University, suggested that Europe would continue to invent new restrictions on Russia.

“The imagination and imagination of our former partners is inexhaustible.

All scientific ties, educational ties have not yet been broken, something else remains in space ... They will invent, invent and invent, ”he admitted.

The expert recalled that Russia plays a significant role in a number of areas, such as geopolitics, transport links, global security issues, and nuclear non-proliferation.

“Therefore, in the end, we will have to find a common language.

Another thing is that this will require a revision of very many existing orders, ”the expert concluded.

Recall that the sanctions approved on June 3 by the European Union imply a ban on the purchase, import or transfer of crude oil and certain petroleum products from Russia to the EU countries, as well as the disconnection of three more Russian banks from SWIFT.

Also, the broadcasting of three Russian TV channels will be suspended in the EU.

In addition, 65 individuals and 18 companies from Russia were included in the sanctions list. 

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed that the decision of the EU authorities to partially ban the import of Russian oil indicates the unwillingness of the European Union to abandon the "vicious practice".

The ministry explained that Europe, by imposing unilateral sanctions on Russian energy supplies, is politicizing the energy sector and is trying to use the interdependence of consumers and energy suppliers as an instrument of political pressure.

At the same time, the EU is damaging its own economy and the socio-economic well-being of its citizens, destabilizing the already difficult situation in the world energy markets, the Foreign Ministry said.

The day before, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that the short-sighted policy of the United States and Europe led to a rise in prices.

In particular, he drew attention to the fact that after the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, the West began to take steps that aggravated the situation.

“This is an absolutely short-sighted, erroneous, I would say, just a stupid policy that leads to a dead end,” the Russian leader emphasized.