Maira Zakharova: Western hysteria directed at Russia won’t change Moscow’s policy

Russian policy does not depend on pressure of external players, hysteria of Western countries regarding Moscow cannot change its political course, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

"Let’s not focus on this hysteria as on something that can cancel out, change our policy. Our policy is not formed depending on somebody wanting to hurt us, do harm and so on," she said.

According to Tass agency, the spokeswoman noted that the situation with deportation of Russian diplomats from Germany, Sweden and Poland is not an unprecedented one, "roughly repeating what we have already seen and experienced."

"This has been going on for years, decades, centuries. People, and I mean our collective West, defend their own interests. When they don’t have any opportunities for equitable competition which would be based on law, on legislation, on common rules of regulation, they move on to aggressive policy," she added.