Putin’s War in Ukraine will Eventually End and Sanctions are Likely to Be Lifted, but Russia will Not Soon Get Back the Markets It has Lost, Gallyamov Says

Paul Goble

            Staunton, May 18 – Many commentators are comforting themselves that Putin’s war in Ukraine will eventually end and that at that time the sanctions Western countries are likely to be lifted, Abbas Gallyamov says. But that will not be the magic elixir that so many now expect because Russia will not soon get back the markets it has lost because of this conflict.

            Countries that had been Russia’s best customers have changed their approach, selecting other suppliers for what they need, the former Putin speech writer and now Putin critic says (t.me/abbasgallyamovpolitics/10489  reposted at echofm.online/opinions/vojna-zakonchitsya-i-dazhe-sankczii-snimut-a-vot-uteryannye-rynki-ne-vernyosh).

            Such countries will have little reason to go back to Russia unless Moscow slashes prices – and if it does that as China is now demanding, that will be just one more way why Putin’s war in Ukraine is going to cast a long dark shadow on Russia, however much so many think otherwise.