Medvedev: We will never ask for the abolition of sanctions

The Russian authorities will not ask the West to cancel the sanctions. This was announced in an interview with Time magazine by Dmitry Medvedev. The translation is posted on the official website of the government.

"Our position is simple, I have formulated it many times: we will not ask for anything. You know our literature well. Mikhail Bulgakov has an excellent phrase in the book" Master and Margarita ", when Woland says that they will never ask and give anything. So we will never ask for the abolition of these sanctions. We will come and finally do not care about all this, because we will not care for all because they will not do it because Better, everyone is only worse, ”the prime minister said.

At the same time, he emphasized that he considers the idea of ​​modernizing the economy based on high technologies an absolutely true, but he noted that such work cannot give tangible results in a short time.

“Probably, our mistakes are also miscalculations, I will not deny. But, of course, in five years it is impossible from an oil economy suffering from a“ Dutch disease ”to create a high -tech economy. This is a difficult task, but we are striving for this,” the prime minister said.

He described the successes of Russia in this direction as "modest." “We are already using a lot of our own cars, mechanisms, vehicles that used to purchase almost completely, whether it be combines or tractors. There are achievements in the field of high technologies, new materials,” Medvedev said.

Earlier, the Prime Minister, in an interview with Euronews, said that sanctions against Russia do not bring results, and therefore the Western countries need to "gain courage" and name the date of their cancellation.

“We didn’t come up with this, it’s not for us to start cancel it. We were scared all the time, these sanctions were introduced into the Soviet period many times. Never led to anything, they lost money. And now it will be the same. We must gain courage and say: you know, we are completing it from this day, we also ask you to suspend the right approach,” said this is the right approach. Prime Minister.