Lavrov: The purpose of sanctions is to change the regime in Russia

Russia is not going to refuse to cooperate with the European Union, but there will be no more business as usual. According to TASS, this was stated by Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, speaking at a meeting of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy.

"No one is going to" shoot in the leg ", refusing to cooperate with Europe, but everyone understands that the Business as Usual is no longer possible," the minister said. According to him, earlier relations between Russia and the EU were not equal. “Their business was this: Russia should, Russia owes this,” said the head of the foreign policy.

"I am convinced that we will come to the fact that" integration of integrations "began to call now, this will be one of the slaughter topics that we want to promote as part of the OSCE on the Council of Foreign Ministers in Basel," the minister said.

He also added that the Western countries went in Ukraine Va-Bank and wanted to "take Russia to the Pont." “Long before the Ukrainian crisis, the feeling hung in the air that our relations with the West are approaching the time of truth,” said Lavrov. “It is impossible to postpone the problem to infinity for later.”

“Either we go to partnership, or the path of“ hit the tops. ”Alas, our partners voluntarily or involuntarily chose the second path,” Lavrov continued. “Our partners in Ukraine went va -Bank, stepped on their own democratic principles, supported extremists. As the hooligans, they wanted to“ take us to the Pont ”, force us to swallow humiliations.”

According to Lavrov, the West does not hide that the purpose of anti -Russian sanctions is to change the regime. “It is publicly stated that the sanctions must be made so that they destroy the economy and raise folk protests. The West unequivocally shows that they do not want to force politics, but want to achieve a change in the regime,” he explained.

But talking about Russia's isolation does not even deserve discussions, the Foreign Minister is sure. “Of course, our economy is damaged as a result of sanctions, but only due to damage to the economy of the countries that introduced them,” added Lavrov.