The volume of Russia's trade with the CIS countries is growing despite threats of secondary sanctions by the United States and the European Union, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday at a press conference following his visit to Uzbekistan.
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"Despite threats to all our partners from the United States and the European Union not to cooperate with the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus under the fear of so-called secondary sanctions and other penalties, trade in the CIS is growing. In 2022, it increased by more than six percent, its volume exceeded $100 billion," he said.
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Based on materials from TASS