Long-standing tight links in the global economic web make disruption of supply chains without losses for all players extremely hard. This is why sanctions imposed upon Russia often backfire on the initiators of unilateral discriminatory measures, which is what sanctions essentially are. Indeed, our production sector is dependent on imports of high-tech products in a number of industries, but the world is also dependent on Russia’s natural resources, and these resources are the basis for development of any production facilities. 

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