Russia can cope with sanctions of the West - Medvedev

MOSCOW, April 22 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is certain that Russia can not only cope with sanctions of the West, but also benefit from this. “But if a number of our partners still choose this path [of sanctions], we will have no other choice, but to rely on our own resources. And we shall win in the end,” he said, making the RF government’s annual report in the State Duma lower house of parliament. Medvedev promised that the state would not let Russians become hostages to the political games over the situation with Crimea. “Will our citizens be affected in the conditions of sanctions? We will not let our citizens become hostages to political games,” the prime minister told the Duma members. He said that the world had made a long journey to becoming global, to learn to come to agreement on the most important international issues and work out uniform rules of the game. “Today, some basic values of the global world, such as, for example, freedom of movement, are challenged,” Medvedev said with regret, recalling how the world had witnessed “the absurd visa restrictions - on the basis of profession or even by gender,” even direct entry bans. The prime minister stressed that the further exchange of the “blacklists” would lead nowhere - to a complete deadlock. Learn more on itar-tass.com