OREANDA-NEWS  Sergey Karaganov, Research Director of the Faculty of World Economics and World Politics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, told American journalist Tucker Carlson what benefits the anti-Russian sanctions have brought.

"They hurt economically, but strategically, politically, and culturally, they were a blessing," Karaganov said in an interview with Carlson.

The political scientist added that he himself would not like a complete lifting of sanctions, but only a partial one.