Alwaght- The freezing of the Russian central bank's assets in the West is "just theft", Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, TASS news agency quoted him as saying.
“When they froze the central bank reserves, nobody who was predicting what sanctions the west would pass could have pictured that. It’s just thievery,” Sergey Lavrov told students at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia’s main foreign relations university.
According to Lavrov, the United States and Europe are talking ultimatums to Russia's closest allies, and they are able to influence practical logistics chains, as it is already happening in connection with the sanctions against Russia; now they also want to block maritime communication.
"In the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union, there are mechanisms on the level of the prime ministers, deputy prime ministers who are constantly dealing with exactly these issues so that we fence ourselves off from such a fierce attack on our interests, undermining all the values of these liberals who boasted of such values as freedom of choice, market competition, free economy, presumption of innocence, and inviolability of private property," he said.
