Follow Your Words, Gentlemen: Medvedev to French Colleagues

The Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, made a statement on his Twitter page addressed to French officials: "Some French minister claimed today that they have declared an economic war on us. Follow your words, gentlemen. And do not forget that throughout human history, economic wars have often turned into real ones," he wrote.

Earlier, France's Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, had stated that the West has declared an economic war on Moscow.