ST. PETERSBURG (Sputnik) – The issue of Western anti-Russia sanctions is not on the agenda of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming visit to Finland, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
"The Russian side traditionally does not raise the issue of sanctions. This issue is not on our agenda…Russia was not the initiator of this situation…We will not raise this issue [during Putin’s visit to Finland]," Peskov told journalists in St. Petersburg on Friday.
Putin's visit to Finland is planned for the summer of 2016, although the exact dates have not been set yet, according to Peskov.
Since 2014, the European Union, the United States and their allies have imposed several rounds of sanctions against Russia in connection with Crimea’s secession from Ukraine and Moscow's alleged interference in the internal Ukrainian conflict, which Russia resolutely denies.
