London: On June 9, President Vladimir Putin said that no Iron Curtain would fall over the Russian economy despite the sanctions imposed by the West. Moscow would not close itself off from the world as the Soviet Union did, he started. “We did not have a closed economy – or rather we did in the Soviet times when we cut ourselves off, created the so-called Iron Curtain, we created it with our own hands. We will not make the same mistake again – our economy will be open,” Putin declared.
