Russia sanctions 'absurd' says Salvini

(ANSA) - Milan, October 15 - EU sanctions on Russia are absurd, Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Monday.
    "On Wednesday I'm going back to Russia for the umpteenth time because a debate is ongoing at the European level whether to indefinitely renew the economic sanctions against Russia which I believed, and believe, are a social, cultural and economic absurdity," said the leader of the anti-migrant Euroskeptic League party.
    Speaking about the effects of the sanctions on Italian exports to Russia, he added: "they are precluding a market to us".
    he said "I'm not going there because they pay me in rubles, as someone has written, but because I'm absolutely convinced (the sanctions are wrong)".