Russia faces difficult adaptation to new sanctions - economist
For eight years, Russia has quietly coped with anti-Russian sanctions, but now it must adapt to a new type of restrictions imposed on energy exports.
Russian economist Sergei Khestanov said this on air on the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Most of the sanctions that were introduced before this time were aimed at Russian imports. And it was precisely this block of sanctions that was overcome quite successfully.
Partly due to parallel imports, partly due to the substitution of products from some countries with products from others. We dealt with sanctions against imports quite successfully,” Khestanov said.
However, he emphasized that Russia now faces a very difficult year of getting used to a new type of sanctions.
“But sanctions against exports began quite recently. Against the export of oil on December XNUMXth and against the export of petroleum products on February XNUMXth. And at least for the first six months we will live in conditions of adaptation to a new type of sanctions against exports.
And here everything will be much more complicated than what we observed in most of 2022,” the economist concluded.
As a reminder, according to a survey conducted in the EU , approximately half of Europeans consider the current anti-Russian sanctions to be ineffective.
Russia faces a difficult adaptation to new sanctions, says economist