Greece's Tsipras attacks sanctions on Russia


  • World
  • Wednesday, 18 Feb 2015

BERLIN (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told Germany's Stern magazine an economic war with Russia was in no-one's interests and that imposing sanctions on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine was "hypocritical"

"If you want to punish Russia, you need to punish all the countries where Russian multi-billionaires have invested their assets," he told Stern in an interview released on Wednesday.

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