Former Russian president phone calls out French finance chief above financial war declare

Issued on: 02/03/2022 – 08:37

“We will deliver about the collapse of the Russian economy,” Le Maire informed the Franceinfo broadcaster after France, the EU and other western governments claimed they would impose a new spherical of sanctions on Moscow.

“The financial and financial stability of energy is entirely in favour of the European Union which is in the course of action of discovering its personal economic electricity,” he claimed.

“We are waging full financial and financial war on Russia.”

But Medvedev, who is deputy chair of the Russian Protection Council, responded on Twitter that these kinds of rhetoric could have severe repercussions.

“Check out your tongue, gentlemen,” reported Medvedev who led Russia among 2008 and 2012 in advance of turning out to be President Vladimir Putin’s primary minister right up until 2020.

“And never ignore that in human history, financial wars very normally turned into genuine types,” he extra.

Le Maire later on told AFP that his language experienced been inappropriate. “We are not in conflict with the Russian people today,” he included.

French President Emmanuel Macron has sought to keep open up a dialogue with Putin, with the two guys speaking once again on Monday.

But French ministers have been working with progressively strident rhetoric to describe the western approach of seeking to strangle Russia’s financial system and lead to agony for Putin’s business enterprise allies.

Asset seizures

“The oligarchs will need to enjoy out for the reason that the record of oligarchs that have been specific by the EU is extremely significant,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told the BFM channel.

He mentioned they were becoming strike not only in their share portfolios but also with the possibility of asset seizures.

“So if I was an oligarch, in Russia or France, I would be fearful,” he additional.

On Monday, the EU additional much more Kremlin-connected oligarchs and Putin’s spokesman to its sanctions blacklist.

Between the higher-profile names have been Igor Sechin, head of the point out oil huge Rosneft, and Nikolay Tokarev, boss of pipeline mammoth Transneft.

Three guys ranked within Russia’s 10 richest by Forbes have been also included: metals magnate Alexei Mordashov, tycoon Alisher Usmanov, and businessman Gennady Timchenko.

Le Drian additional: “I hope he (Putin) realises how the stability of power has shifted and that he has misplaced the data war.”

(With AFP)