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EU adopts new anti-Russian sanctions to favour US military industry - experts

ZAMYATINA Tamara 
The European Union expands anti-Russian sanctions against its own interests under tough pressure from the US in favour of the American military-industrial complex

 MOSCOW, July 28./ITAR-TASS/. The European Union expands anti-Russian sanctions against its own interests under tough pressure from the US in favour of the American military-industrial complex, say experts polled by ITAR-TASS.

“This week, the EU is going to expand and toughen anti-Russian measures. This is obviously an operation staged by Washington that used the Malaysian airliner downed in Ukraine with most of its passengers being Europeans as an excuse to defeat Russia,” said director of the department for strategic analysis and developments at sanctioned Vnesheconombank Vladimir Andrianov. “The unprecedented propaganda campaign against Russia has turned the public in the Old World against Russia to such an extent that politicians are afraid of looking indecisive and losing voters' support to blindly take the cue from the US”

“The European Union has no chance to withstand US pressure over anti-Russian measures,” the expert told ITAR-TASS. “Washington overtly interferes with Russian-EU gas supply talks and blackmails France over its contract on helicopter carrier Mistral supplies to Russia. It means the US flagrantly pursues its own policy in Europe and appoints its own people to key posts in the EU.”

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