Excess public debt, large budget deficits, a sharp drop in industrial production: Vladimir Putin in an interview with Pavel Zarobin for the Vesti information system - about the economic problems of European countries that led to mass protests. The president also pointed out the mistakes of the Europeans in switching to "green" technologies. It was not economically profitable to immediately close nuclear power plants and coal mines, he noted. Putin sees Europe's refusal of anything Russian as stupid: "Ban everything, everything from Russia! It's stupid, it's just stupid! We didn't ban anything. By the way, in the first stage there were also accusations against Russia that Russia prohibits, Russia does not supply relatively cheap raw materials, oil, gas, coal, uranium raw materials. Yes, we have never refused anyone! They refused." In order not to miss our exclusivity: website | Max | telegram.