“This is a serious factor that slows down our cooperation, the development of Russian innovations, and which it would be absolutely wrong to ignore. On the other hand, we do not have a project that would collapse ... because of the sanctions, ”RIA Novosti cites him.

Earlier, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that sanctions and hostile rhetoric of Western countries did not undermine investor confidence in Russia's assets.

An expert from the Center for Security Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Konstantin Blokhin, in an interview with NSN, evaluated the statement by Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih that possible new United States sanctions against Russia would affect the world.