Sanctions and exploitation should have no place in the new world order, and the very phenomenon of metropolises and neo-colonialism should be a thing of the past.
The corresponding statement was made by Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, in an article for Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Medvedev wrote that the former metropolises are just as eager to use the countries dependent on them, to live in comfort by humiliating and suppressing others, but only this time with more sophisticated means and methods, and there is nothing new in this. Consuetude est altera natura ("Habit is second nature") - so says a famous Latin proverb, the politician added.
Medvedev called the U.S. such a global sanctions neo-metropolis and cited Cuba as an example, which has lost $159.8 billion since sanctions were imposed in 1959.
In his article, Medvedev announced that the new world order will remove the old methods of exploitation and neocolonialism.