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Director of IMEMO Feodor Voitolovsky has given an interview to Interfax special correspondent Vyacheslav Terekhov in which he comments on the meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Geneva.
I don't agree that the past meeting was marking time. The very beginning of this dialogue initiated by the Russian side is a step forward. What matters is how far both sides are ready to go.
Relations have been at an impasse for seven years. This is our reality. Measures of economic pressure, so-called sanctions, are being used against Russia. Their goal is to create systemic restrictions for the development of the sectors of the Russian economy that are the most integrated into the global economy, that make considerable profit for the budget or that are targeted at markets on which Russia is a U.S. competitor just as with arms and military hardware.
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