Kremlin aide urges Russians not to wait for sanctions to be lifted: ‘The world as it was won’t come back’
Russia should not count on sanctions relief, presidential aide Maxim Oreshkin said at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, adding that the country needs to shift from a defensive posture toward a proactive one.
“We need to move away from this purely defensive model. In fact, we’ve already moved away from it in many respects, and we need to keep moving further and further away. We shouldn’t wait for things to go back to the way they were, for Western sanctions to be lifted. The changes that are taking place are fundamental and global in nature. […] And so there’s no point waiting for something to change, for something to go back. It won’t go back and it won’t change,” he said, according to the Russian business news outlet RBC.
“The world that existed before won’t come back. We need to actively develop on the domestic front,” Oreshkin added, according to the Russian business daily Vedomosti.
The day before, Andrei Bezrukov said at the SPIEF that Russia will be at war for the next “couple of decades,” and that the country will produce two “wartime” generations.
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