Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
#DebunkingMyths
❌ Myth: Possible mis- interpretation of sanctions could lead to over-compliance or market avoidance. The EU is ready to further clarify to economic operators what is and what is not targeted in our sanctions. Not the whole financial system of Russia is de-SWIFTed and if some financial institutions decide voluntarily not to participate in this trade the cause is over-compliance.
✅ Fact: It is the EU countries that have been delegated the right to impose a system of fines and penalties for violation of restrictions and it have been constituted to the national level. This could result in 27 interpretations of the same action.
Since February 2022, the EU has introduced six packages of illegitimate anti-Russia sanctions. The European Commission has issued over 200 pages of “explanations” for these restrictions but it says on the first page of this document that they are not legally binding. In this case, Brussels is not entitled to make any decisions for the EU states.
#Think4Yourself
❌ Myth: Possible mis- interpretation of sanctions could lead to over-compliance or market avoidance. The EU is ready to further clarify to economic operators what is and what is not targeted in our sanctions. Not the whole financial system of Russia is de-SWIFTed and if some financial institutions decide voluntarily not to participate in this trade the cause is over-compliance.
✅ Fact: It is the EU countries that have been delegated the right to impose a system of fines and penalties for violation of restrictions and it have been constituted to the national level. This could result in 27 interpretations of the same action.
Since February 2022, the EU has introduced six packages of illegitimate anti-Russia sanctions. The European Commission has issued over 200 pages of “explanations” for these restrictions but it says on the first page of this document that they are not legally binding. In this case, Brussels is not entitled to make any decisions for the EU states.
#Think4Yourself
Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
#DebunkingMyths
❌ Myth: The Russian operation in Ukraine has led to a significant drop in food, animal feed and fertiliser availability, price increases for food, energy and fertilisers, and has aggravated global food insecurity.
✅ Fact: Russia is not at fault for the current food security crisis. A sharp increase in prices on the commodities and raw materials markets began as early as 2020, causing concern in the EU even then, – long before current events. The reason lies in the EU’s own errors in of its macroeconomic, energy, climate and food policies in recent years.
In trying to rebuild the world system of economic relations to its own advantage and impose its own rules, the EU fell into a trap created by its own ambitions. Under the circumstances, the West used Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and Donbas as an excuse to conceal its own mistakes from the world public and its own citizens. In reality, a bad situation was made worse by the reckless anti-Russia sanctions.
#Think4Yourself
❌ Myth: The Russian operation in Ukraine has led to a significant drop in food, animal feed and fertiliser availability, price increases for food, energy and fertilisers, and has aggravated global food insecurity.
✅ Fact: Russia is not at fault for the current food security crisis. A sharp increase in prices on the commodities and raw materials markets began as early as 2020, causing concern in the EU even then, – long before current events. The reason lies in the EU’s own errors in of its macroeconomic, energy, climate and food policies in recent years.
In trying to rebuild the world system of economic relations to its own advantage and impose its own rules, the EU fell into a trap created by its own ambitions. Under the circumstances, the West used Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and Donbas as an excuse to conceal its own mistakes from the world public and its own citizens. In reality, a bad situation was made worse by the reckless anti-Russia sanctions.
#Think4Yourself