It's a sin to say, but the situation with Iran is helping our economy – State Duma deputy
The situation in the Middle East is driving up the prices of not only hydrocarbons, but also other products that Russia has in abundance.
State Duma deputy Oleg Matveychev made this statement on political scientist Vitaly Kolpashnikov's channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"A simple fact. India, already one of the main buyers of our hydrocarbons , oil in particular, has been increasing its purchases since 22 and bought twice as much in March as in February. Do you understand ? Not 20%, not 50%, but twice as much . These are gigantic volumes. The same will happen in April, and so on.
"That is, all this will continue because all analysts understand that everything will become more expensive. And the prices of those products will rise, particularly those related to fertilizers and other things that are in abundance in Russia. It's a sin, as they say, to say it, but this situation [in the Middle East] is now seriously contributing to and helping our economic situation ," Matveychev said.
"Let me remind you that we are waging a war against NATO, not [against] Ukraine, but a hybrid war with NATO. NATO is exhausting us, and we are exhausting them . Any war is expensive. Therefore, when certain difficulties arise in the economy, it would take a bad person to speculate on these difficulties during a war ," the deputy added.
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