Lavrov did not rule out a new "Iron Curtain"

This will end anyway. Better, then, a quick death than terror without end. Russia consistently raises the stakes, bluffs and waits for who will blink first. During the last visit of the EU foreign minister to Russia, they just did not wipe their feet on him. And of course, upon its return, the European Union started talking about new sanctions. It is only interesting how Lavrov imagines this gap. With his family in America and the families of all Putin's officials. Probably forgot how it was the first time, with a scoop? Russia in relations with Brussels proceeds "from the readiness to break off relations with the European Union." Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned about this in an interview with journalist Vladimir Solovyov on the Soloviev Live YouTube channel. A fragment of the conversation is available on the Foreign Ministry website. When asked whether Russia is heading for a break with the European Union, Lavrov replied: "We proceed from the fact that we are ready." And he clarified: if once again the Russian Federation is faced with the fact that sanctions that create risks for the Russian economy are being introduced, as has already happened many times, that is, readiness to break. “We do not want to isolate ourselves from world life, but we must be ready for this. If you want peace, prepare for war, ”he concluded. Izvestia english We will remind, on the eve it became known that the EU countries began discussing possible sanctions against Russia because of the sentence to Alexei Navalny. As reported by Bloomberg, citing a source, not a single state within the EU began to object to the new sanctions. EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Josep Borrell said in early February that, amid the persecution of Alexei Navalny, relations between Russia and the EU had dropped to their lowest level in many years. Borrell added that the European Union does not exclude the introduction of new sanctions against Russia for violation of human rights. The next day, Navalny's associates discussed sanctions against Putin's entourage with representatives of the EU and the United States. The Russian Foreign Ministry called this an "aggressive attack" on Russia from the West. On February 11, Bloomberg sources said that representatives of the EU member states held a meeting on anti-Russian sanctions due to the persecution of Navalny. None of the meeting participants objected to the proposal to impose sanctions, Bloomberg noted.