Russia sanctions 'madness' says Salvini

(ANSA) - Moscow, October 17 - Sanctions against Russia are "economic, social and cultural madness", Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini told Russian industrialists in Moscow on Wednesday.
    "I come here free of charge because I think the sanctions are economic, social and cultural madness", he said.
    Salvini also called the sanctions "an absurdity".
    The interior minister and leader of the anti-migrant Euroskeptic League party added: "I feel at home in Russia while I don't in other European countries".
    He said: "the problems of 2018 are to be solved sitting at a table and not with tanks at the borders".