Baku-APA. Prolongation of sanctions against Russia was expectable and it will not exert any impact on the Russian economy, Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev told reporters here on Friday, APA reports quoting TASS.
"This was an expectable decision and we haven't heard anything new," he said. "The Russian economy won't be affected."
A political source in Brussels said on Friday the EU ambassadors had coordinated an unchanged extension of the anti-Russian economic sanctions through to July 2016. The EU Council is expected to OK the extension before December 21.