Obama talks about the Russian situation

The U.S. President Barack Obama said, on Wednesday evening, that the Russians see the Western countries as some countries that enables them to succeed, a trend that worries the Kremlin.

Russia "feels surrounded, partly because these people look to the West and when they see Europe and the United States say that there are countries which, by their own power and without relations, without being born in the right place, without paying bribes they can't succeed," he said.

By comparison, Russia is not an attractive country for foreign investors and has an aging population, Obama said at a Democratic National Committee dinner.

The annexation of Crimea by Russia comes from a position of weakness rather than strength, he argued, repeating what has already been said in March.

The United States imposed sanctions on the targeted Russian officials, as retaliation against the annexation of Crimea, a peninsula Russian-speaking majority, threatened to expand if Moscow attacks other Ukrainian territories.