Medvedev enters Ukraine in Russian counter-sanctions list with proviso

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has entered, by his edict, Albania, Montenegro, Iceland and Liechtenstein in the Russian counter-sanctions list. Ukraine is also listed among the above countries with the proviso that an embargo on deliveries of Ukrainian agricultural produce to Russia should come into force if Kiev applies the economic part of the Association Agreement with the European Union.

Previously, Russia put the embargo on re-export of agricultural produce from Bulgaria. The reason behind this decision was the forgery of phytosanitary documents.

According to the documents, producing countries were allegedly Brazil and Morocco. In actual fact, the consignment of goods was made in Poland.

As is known, Russia placed the embargo on import of goods from Poland in retaliation for sanctions imposed by the EU.

Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that sanctions used by the decadent West in connection with a civil war in Ukraine helped the government of Russia develop domestic industries and agriculture in particular. Moscow has to accelerate rates of the implementation of a program for the replacement of imports.

Specifically, the government should carry out the task of replacing agricultural imports at priority rates. After Russia had entered the World Trade Organization, the domestic agricultural market was seized by foreign companies. “At present, we have cleared them from our market,” Mr. Putin said.

As geopolitical analyst William Engdahl put it, the United States has been attempting to isolate Russia by imposing sanctions. However, the American evil empire and its allies in the EU have only produced the opposite effect and brought Russia closer to China and other BRICS countries.

Funnily enough, Mr. Wilson, a citizen of Britain, wrote: “The U.S. via the dollar, CIA and our pathetically weak politicians, engineered the dissolution of the British empire and the demise of sterling. Would our financial establishment have the courage to change allies? Join the BRICS to form the BBRICS, easier to say in cold weather.”

In fact, many observers think Washington is very strong in stupidity in its foreign policy. The U.S. created a military coup d’etat in Kiev and brought Ukrainian neo-Nazis to power that is illegitimate.

U.S. politologist Paul Craig Roberts believes the Nazi coup in Ukraine is Washington’s attempt to thrust a dagger in Russia’s heart. The recklessness of such a criminal act has been covered up by constructing a false reality of the so-called people’s revolution against a corrupt government. The world should be stunned, from Mr. Roberts’ point of view, that “bringing democracy” has become Washington’s cover-up for resurrecting the Nazi state in Europe, which borders Russia.

Ultimately the West’s mask has been torn off, revealing its “democracy” as at best unsubstantial, overrated and at worst duplicitous.