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The presidential gesture – Fig

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Vladimir Putin

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President Vladimir Putin, answering a question of journalists on possible mitigation response to Western sanctions, and said, “Fuck them.” As reported the correspondent of”.ru” the President said at a press conference on the results of the BRICS summit in India.

“Now I’ll explain my position. I said curtly but correctly. Now I will try to explain. I do not agree with you is not the counter it countermeasures to protect our market,” Putin explained.

He noted that Russia retaliated in an area where this creates problems for the West. “We did it where it was beneficial for us to do, and we will not do anything, in order to punish someone, punish yourself — buy a ticket and not go, so we won’t do,” he said.

On 2 August the Ministry reported that total losses of EU from sanctions confrontation with Russia is about 40-50 billion euros per year, or about 0.4 percent of GDP in the EU.

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00:05 2 Jun 2016

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