{"id":24788,"date":"2026-10-26T16:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/26\/medvedev-russia-economy-sanctions-global-south-digital-divide\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T16:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:02:16","slug":"medvedev-russia-economy-sanctions-global-south-digital-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/26\/medvedev-russia-economy-sanctions-global-south-digital-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev Says Wide-Ranging Sanctions Have Failed to Stop Russia&#8217;s Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia&#8217;s Security Council, said on Monday that the country&#8217;s economy has vast capacity and has maintained its resilience and growth despite sweeping sanctions pressure.<\/p>\n<p>He added that more than 30,000 illegal sanctions have been imposed on Russia, but that they have not been able to halt the country&#8217;s development. Medvedev also pointed to Western countries&#8217; use of sanctions and tariffs as tools of pressure on other countries, especially those in the Global South.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy chairman of Russia&#8217;s Security Council also voiced concern about the digital divide between the countries of the Global North and Global South, saying that the concentration of new technologies in the hands of a limited number of countries is widening that gap.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev&#8217;s remarks came as international sanctions against Russia have increased following recent political developments, with the resulting economic impact under review in international circles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medvedev says more than 30,000 sanctions have failed to stop Russia&#8217;s economy amid growing international pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}