Sun 03 April 2022:
The Kremlin has warned the West that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rouble payment scheme for natural gas is the prototype that Russia will extend to other major exports because the West has sealed the decline of the US dollar by freezing Russian assets.
“It is the prototype of the system,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russia’s Channel One state television on Sunday. “I have no doubt that it will be extended to new groups of goods,” he added. Peskov gave no timeframe for such a move.
Western capitals slapped Russia with unprecedented economic sanctions after Moscow moved troops into Ukraine on February 24.
The Kremlin on Sunday said it’s not possible to completely isolate Russia. “There can be no complete vacuum or isolation of Russia, it is technologically impossible in the modern world,” said Peskov.
“Of course, the US is threatening with secondary sanctions. Of course, everyone is under terrible pressure from the US, and not all countries find the strength to clearly define their sovereign position,” Peskov told Rossiya 1 broadcaster.
Peskov also noted that in the modern world, the complete isolation of Russia is “technically impossible.
” He added that Europe will have to build a dialogue with Russia despite Washington’s wishes.
“Sooner or later we will have to build a dialogue, whether someone across the ocean wants it or not,” Peskov said.
He praised Turkey for daring to stand up for what it believes is in its interests despite existing differences with Russia. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan belongs to “a minority atop the modern political Olympus,” the spokesman said.
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