Poklonskaya: sanctions could be stimulus for development of Crimea

Crimean prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya said in an interview with the Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda that she doesn't feel any limits as a result of the sanctions imposed by Western countries. 

Answering a question regarding whether she has felt any restrictions on her own life as a subject of sanctions, Poklonskaya said that she wants to thank the sanctions. 

"The sanctions could be a stimulus for officials to develop tourism and resorts here more quickly and actively, make it more beautiful. This way they understand that they can't run somewhere else for a vacation, to distant islands, because of sanctions," Poklonskaya said.

Poklonskaya also noted that rumors of ethnic and religious discrimination in Crimea were unfounded, saying a quarter of the workers in the republic's Prosecutor's Office are Crimean Tatars.