International security/ Real cause

Russia’s independent political course and restoration of its economic might were the real cause for Western sanctions against Moscow, while the conflict in neighboring Ukraine was an excuse to initiate the sanctions, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said. “The real cause was the assumed course towards the independent development of our country, the course towards the independent political policy, the course towards the restoration of the economic might of our country,” Rogozin said in an interview with Rossiya-1 television channel.

The deputy premier said that the United States and its President Barack Obama personally as well as the European Union are using the events in Ukraine as a tool to exert pressure on Russia.

“Ukraine is an excuse and the real cause is where we [Russia] are heading,” Rogozin said adding that the European Union “unfortunately suppressed its will to independent thinking and obeys NATO logic.”

Russia’s independent political course real cause for Western sanctions — Russian deputyPM