The Russian oligarch Deripaska complained about the "total" sanctions and called for the mastering of Africa markets

Western sanctions imposed against Russia after the start of the war with Ukraine took on a "total character." This was stated by the Russian billionaire and oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who is a defendant in the sanctions lists of the United States and Great Britain.

“Previously, the business of business, having access to almost all resources,” he was well located, occupied, saw how to borrow, including technologies, solutions, managerial resources. Now this part of the market has closed due to the impossibility of using all this, and we must go to new markets, ” Deripaska said during the expert discussion of the Stolypin club, RBC reports.

According to him, "this is an accomplished task." "We were lucky: in the next 10-12 years, a new billion people will be born in the countries of the Global East and South. He needs everything that we can produce, everything that we can learn to produce with little effort. We have a market," Deripaska said.

According to him, Russia can achieve new markets and should go "further than China - to Malaysia, Indonesia, all of Southeast Asia, Africa, India."

According to the Federal Customs Service (FCS), in the first four months of 2024, the export of Russia's goods to Asia and Africa increased in monetary terms by 12%, to $ 109 billion (from $ 97 billion a year earlier).