He said this at a meeting on the preparation of a system of measures to ensure the technological sovereignty of the domestic research and development sector at the MIPT site.

“You all perfectly understand that this very blockade, these sanctions, you can call it whatever you like, they just won’t lift it in the foreseeable future.

That is, we can rely only on our own strength in the coming foreseeable periods.

There is a very big challenge and a lot of minuses in this, but there are probably certain pluses - precisely because this is an impulse for new breakthrough solutions, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.

Medvedev noted that Russia needs to do everything to replace imported equipment with domestic counterparts.

“We have potential here, the main problem, as usual, is in finding an industrial partner, in creating serial samples,” Medvedev added.

Earlier, Medvedev said that sanctions under certain circumstances can be regarded as an act of international aggression with the right to self-defense in response.