The initiative of the ‘Parliament of the Republic of Venice’ nongovernmental organization to recognize Crimea as part of Russia serves as evidence that the policy of anti-Russian sanctions in Europe has come to a dead-end, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview to the Izvestiya newspaper.
"Voting on the resolution by the Parliament of the Republic of Venice civic organization, as well as other political processes, such as public opinion polls, referendum in the Netherlands - all this shows that the process of anti-Russian propaganda in the context of Ukraine has not only come to a dead-end, it also starts unwinding backwards and working against those who launched it. This is just the beginning," TASS cited Zakharova as saying.
According to her, European countries lost their sovereignty in foreign policy due to such factors as the Syrian crisis, situation in the Middle East and North Africa, US interference into the internal affairs of Ukraine and other European countries. However, Europeans start to understand now that this policy is directed only against Europe, the diplomat noted.
