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Anti-Russian sanctions are restrictive measures by the EU, the US and Western countries against Russia and its citizens.

Principal sanctions — the ban on entry for individuals and a ban on business activities for companies.

Currently against Russia operates a number of sanctions measures in connection with the Ukrainian crisis.

Sanctions against Russia have arisen not only in the moment, and long before that.

Russia had sanctions since the days of the Soviet Union.

It all started with the recognition of the new state in the international arena for a long time.

After the Soviet victory in world war II the Western States were afraid of the growing influence of the Soviet Republic and began to impose new sanctions relating to the blockade of the diffusion of new technologies and the disruption of important transactions.

According to many experts, the anti-Russian sanctions have not achieved their goal, and thus cause economic harm to those countries that imposed them.

While sanctions do have a negative impact on the Russian economy.

Sanctions have become a powerful stimulus for the development of import substitution in Russia, especially the Russian government introduced counter-sanctions, restricting imports of many Western products.

For example, in 2014, Russia imposed a ban on food imports from countries that imposed sanctions against Russia.

This is mainly affected EU countries, many of which supplied agricultural products to Russia.

Faced with a partial economic blockade in Europe, Russia has largely changed the course of its foreign policy, turning to the East, where the main ally of both diplomatic and political levels became China.

Not only Chinese, but also a number of Asian countries refused to introduce anti-Russian sanctions.

Of course, you can cause some damage to each other.

But it will be a mutual damage.

And this, too, need to think.

«We believe our actions have been absolutely reasonable, while any threat against Russia is counterproductive and harmful», — Vladimir Putin said.