Naryshkin: the West will not lift the sanctions this year

 The Western sanctions against Russia will not be canceled this year, the State Duma Speaker, Sergei Naryshkin, stated today during the debates of the primaries’ participants of the United Russia titled ‘Development of agriculture and food security’ held in the Leningrad region.

He stressed that the actions taken by the West are not the sanctions, but the ‘illegal actions in violation of international law, in violation of the principles of the World Trade Organization,’ TASS reports.