CHELYABINSK. April 14 (Interfax) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has said that the future of Russia is linked to the East, not the West.
"Our whole perspective, it is not in the West, it is in the East. It is in the East that Russia borders with Japan, China, close to India, the two Koreas, the whole southeastern Asia. The future history of the 21st century will all be there, in the East, not in the West squeezed inside the tiny European Union. The European Union is having some psychological and mental complexes, introducing some sanctions all the time," Rogozin said at a meeting with the faculty and alumni of the South Urals University in Chelyabinsk on Saturday.
"Why did they put me on the sanctions list? I can't go to America, can't buy a yacht, can't ride in a luxury car. What do they think of us, that we are going to be sad about it? Now that we have Crimea, we'll be going there," the deputy prime minister said.