MOSCOW, October 15. /TASS/. The achievements of Russia and the entire Eurasian region should be viewed as efforts that serve their own interests, not as a counterbalance to someone else, Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at the "Eurasia" award ceremony.
He was asked whether the award’s expanding geographical reach could be seen as a kind of response to the West’s Russophobia.
"You know, it’s not like that! There’s no need to develop anything as our response to the West and so on. Let’s develop everything to suit our own interests. But if you do something to spite someone, it won’t lead to anything good," he replied.