West failing to ‘bind Russia’: Medvedev | Al Jazeera

Dmitry Medvedev, the former president of Russia, has said that Western efforts to bind Russia have failed as Moscow was ready for sanctions.

“Of course, there are real difficulties, which Russia has to cope with, as we are still being isolated from global value-added chains, the international division of labor, facing growing unemployment and being sent into an economic turmoil,” he was quoted as saying by the TASS news agency.

“Nevertheless, the efforts to bound Russia fail as we were ready for such predictable attacks,” he said, citing Moscow’s decision to call for payments in roubles for its gas exports.

“While our opponents continue their fruitless work, the world is gradually moving towards a new logic of global economic relations, and to a revised financial system,” he added.