Italy blocked the automatic EU sanctions extension against Russia. Why has namely Italy taken this initiative? Who can’t Italy share Libya with? And what does Renzi expect to obtain instead? – Pravda.Ru conducted an interview with Fabrizio Bertot, a well-known Italian politician, former Member of the European Parliament. – Why has namely Italy gone the length of this initiative? –... 

Western sanctions might push Russia to deepen cooperation with BRICS states, in particular, to strengthen its ties with China, which will possibly turn out to be a big catastrophe for the US and the EU some time later. On March 18, the spokesperson for the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, claimed in a BBC interview that Russia would switch to new partners in case of economic sanctions being imposed by the...