Calls by some European politicians to refuse to participate in joint projects with Russia and to impose new anti-Russian sanctions can be considered hypocrisy. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Siyarto stated this in an interview with RBC.
“The fact is that all such talk in most cases is hypocrisy. Take a closer look and see: many countries that criticize Russia most harshly have the most profitable business here, ”explained Siyarto.
According to him, it is extremely unlikely that Western countries, despite the loud statements of their politicians, will really begin to refuse contracts with Russia that are beneficial to them.
Earlier it became known that the foreign ministers of the European Union on January 25 will discuss the possibility of introducing new sanctions against Russia. At the same time, the representative of the EU's foreign policy service Peter Stano noted that the decision to impose sanctions is always taken only in the case of unanimous support from all member countries of the association.
The European Parliament adopted a resolution in which it called for an immediate blocking of the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and the introduction of new sanctions against Russia due to the arrest of Alexei Navalny. The deputies demanded his release, as well as tougher anti-Russian sanctions.
The detention of Navalny at the Sheremetyevo airport became known on Sunday, January 17. This happened on the basis of the decision of the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Moscow, according to which the oppositionist was put on the wanted list for systematic violations of the conditions of the probationary period. On January 18, he was arrested for 30 days.
Before his arrest, he was in Berlin, where he was taken on August 22, 2020. Two days earlier, during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow, Navalny felt unwell, the plane was urgently landed in Omsk.
