April 7 (Reuters) – Russia is facing its most difficult situation in three decades due to unprecedented Western sanctions, but foreign attempts to isolate it from the global economy will fail, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Thursday.
He also said the situation provided room for new business opportunities as foreign companies leaving Russia would make space for others.
Western countries are progressively tightening a barrage of economic sanctions imposed to try to force Russia to end its military operation in Ukraine and withdraw its forces.
Austria
is expelling four Russian diplomats for acting in a way incompatible
with their diplomatic status, a spokeswoman for its foreign minister
said on Thursday, joining a group of European Union countries that have
taken similar action this week.
Unlike those other EU countries,
which include France, Italy and Germany, the spokesperson for Alexander
Schallenberg did not say the move was because of Russian forces’ actions
in Ukraine. The three diplomats working at Russia’s embassy and one
based in Salzburg must leave the country by April 12, she said.
