And what is this howling in the swamps, or sanctions against Russia (do not) work

Exclusive. In the United States of America, "poverty is at every turn," said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a press conference on the results of Russian diplomacy in 2024.

Dictator Putin at a meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, representatives of the Military Industry and missile systems developers

"Probably, what we see and what we saw during many international events, for example, during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation [summit] that was held in San Francisco, the United States has a lot of problems, there is poverty at every step, if you get off the central highways," said the 74-year-old knight of the Order of the Stallion with a blue eye.

On the same day, January 14, the chairman of the Federation Council, Valentina Matviyenko, at a meeting with the deputy chairman of the National Council of Slovakia, Andrey Danko and Tybor Gaspar, spoke about the suffering of Europe due to the termination of cooperation between Russia and the European Union.

"Unfortunately, cooperation with the European Union, which was very active, multi-sectoral, multi-directional, was interrupted not through our fault, to the detriment of our national interests, I mean the European states," she said. In Europe, there is now a "sobering" and an understanding that one must first take care of one's own national interests, and not serve the geopolitical, economic, and other interests of other countries.

Less than a week has passed since the USA introduced the largest sanctions against the Russian energy industry, and in Russia there is a howl in the swamps. But everything started so well, when on February 22, 2022, the Federation Council announced that Russia had removed new sanctions from the "package of packages". "Another package of sanctions was introduced against Russia, but Russia put this package in a package with packages," said Yelena Afanasyeva, a member of the Soviet Fed Committee on Constitutional Legislation, noting that everyone knows why these packages exist in homes.

On Friday, January 10, the US Treasury introduced sanctions against the Russian energy industry, the toughest in Russian history. At least 183 tankers transporting Russian oil and petroleum products in violation of sanctions were restricted. According to various estimates, this is about 10% of the world fleet of oil tankers; Last year, 143 ships from the list transported 42% of Russian oil exports by sea.

The Russian shipping company Sovcomflot, as well as the largest oil exporters in Russia, Gazpromneft and Surgutneftegaz, were included in the sanctions list. These are the first American sanctions against the largest Russian oil companies.

Interlocutors of the agency Reuters they say that these sanctions will force China and India to look for new suppliers of Russian oil. At least 65 tankers with Russian oil have already anchored off the coast of China, Singapore and Russia. In particular, five tankers are drifting in the ports of China, another seven - near Singapore, the rest - near the shores of Russia in the Baltic Sea and the Far East.

The system of energy export from the Russian Federation is collapsing before our eyes, because China and India immediately refused to accept tankers of the Russian "shadow fleet". This disproved the myth that Russia allegedly united around itself the countries of the Global South to confront the West.

Actually, the house of cards crumbled back in December, when India and South Africa renounced the BRICS single currency project, which dictator Putin is actively promoting.

No decision has been taken to create a single currency to reduce the use of the dollar, the Reserve Bank of India said. "The BRICS currency was an idea put forward by one of the members [of the bloc], it was discussed, but no decision was made," Central Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das said at a press briefing. - It is also necessary to take into account the geographical heterogeneity of the countries, in contrast to the geographically connected Eurozone.

A few days earlier, the South African Republic spoke out against the BRICS common currency. The country has no plans to create one, the Foreign Ministry said. "Recently, unreliable reports have led to the appearance of a false impression that BRICS plans to create a new currency. This is not so. "Discussions within the framework of BRICS are about trade between the bloc's member countries using their own national currencies," they said.

The economic crisis in Russia is growing. Even "Gazprom", which became unprofitable in 2023 - for the first time in 25 years, announced the reduction of almost half of the employees of the central apparatus. Cut off from global markets, the Russian Federation will not be able to develop key sectors of the economy, and most importantly, to endlessly finance the military machine.

This is the end of the myth that sanctions against Russia are allegedly not working, which was launched by propaganda to cover not only the military, but also the economic bluff of the Kremlin.

Vera Perovskaya