Bangladesh, March 25 -- Russia has successfully resisted the ideological and economic warfare launched by the West in an attempt to divide its society and destabilize the country, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. Speaking to students at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics on March 24, Zakharova asserted that the West had miscalculated in its efforts to isolate Russia and provoke internal strife in the wake of the Ukraine conflict.

Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, the United States and the European Union have imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia. These measures, intended to cripple Russias economy and isolate it from global markets, have included bans on seaborne oil shipmen...