The Russian Ambassador to Indonesia, Mikhail Y. Galuzin, has criticized Western governments for the ongoing sanctions imposed on his country over the conflict in Ukraine, decrying them as “illegal” and contradictory to the rules of international trade.Galuzin accused the West of hypocrisy as the sanctions contradicted the principle of free-market economies. “We are strongly against this policy,” he said in a media briefing in Jakarta on Monday.Sanctions were first applied in March last year by Western countries including the US, Canada and Australia as well as the EU following Russia’s annexation of Crimea. In response, Russia announced import bans in …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
