Emphasizing That Russia Cannot Be Isolated From Other Countries Economically And Politically, Kremlin: It Won't Work

Illustration of the Kremlin, Russia. (Wikimedia Commons / Mineeva Yu.)

JAKARTA - Russia will not be isolated by exploiting various fields, including technology, by hostile countries, according to the Kremlin.

"No one is talking about isolation. It is impossible to isolate Russia, despite the fact that countries that are not friendly, or rather hostile to us, are trying to isolate us economically, politically and in the trade sphere," the spokesman said. Kremlin Dmitry Peskov, quoted from TASS June 10.

"They cannot and will not succeed, because in today's world it is impossible to isolate a country, especially a country as big as Russia," he said.

The Kremlin spokesman further stressed that no country wants to isolate itself.

Commenting on the RBC news column by the Russian President's Special Envoy for Digital Development, on the need to strengthen the country's digital and technological sovereignty, Peskov cited his name as "a proven expert who wields considerable influence and is a strong authority in his field."

"Now everyone expresses different points of view on the issue of our technological and economic sovereignty. In general, because everything is changing in the world, in politics, security, trade, and economy, everyone is interested in this issue," he said.

"This is a matter for discussion. I am sure this topic will be discussed widely at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum as well," Peskov said.

As previously reported, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Tuesday that efforts to isolate Moscow would fail, citing the success of the Soviet space program as proof Russia can achieve spectacular leaps forward under difficult conditions.

Russia has said it will never again rely on the West after the United States and its allies imposed crippling sanctions to punish President Putin for his February 24 orders over "special military operations" in Ukraine.

Sixty-one years since Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union made his way into the history books by becoming the first man in space, President Putin traveled to the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East, 3.450 miles (5.550 km) east of Moscow.

"The sanctions are total, the isolation is complete but the Soviet Union is still the first in space," President Putin said, according to Russian state television.

"We don't mean to be isolated. It is impossible to isolate anyone in the modern world, especially a country as vast as Russia," he said.

It is well known that Russia's Cold War space successes such as the Gagarin flight and the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite from Earth, are of particular relevance to Russia: both events took the United States by surprise.