The calls of some European politicians to refuse to participate in joint projects with Russia and to impose new anti-Russian sanctions can be considered hypocrisy. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Siyarto stated this in an interview with RBC.
“The fact is that all such talk in most cases is hypocrisy. Look closely and you will see: many countries that criticize Russia hardest have the most profitable business here,” Siyjarto explained.
According to him, it is extremely unlikely that the Western countries, despite the loud statements of their politicians, will really begin to abandon contracts with Russia that are beneficial to them.
Earlier it became known that the Foreign Ministers of the EU countries on January 25 will discuss the possibility of introducing new sanctions against Russia. At the same time, the representative of the EU foreign policy service Peter Stano noted that the decision to impose sanctions is always made only in case of unanimous support by all member countries of the association.
The European Parliament adopted a resolution urging to immediately block the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and introduce new sanctions against Russia because of the arrest of Alexei Navalny. The deputies demanded his release, as well as tougher anti-Russian sanctions.
The detention of Navalny at Sheremetyevo airport became known on Sunday, January 17. This happened on the basis of the decision of the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Moscow, according to which the oppositionist was put on the wanted list for systematic violations of the conditions of the probationary period. On January 18, he was arrested for 30 days.
Before his arrest, he was in Berlin, where he was delivered on August 22, 2020. Two days earlier, during the flight from Tomsk to Moscow, Navalny felt unwell, the plane was urgently landed in Omsk.