My diplomat speech is rusty but it could really mean that.
"We don't expect anything from our European partners [We beg you]. The only thing we expect[We are very humble in our demands] is for them to leave the meaningless[we totally care] sanctions spiral and move onto the path of lifting the sanctions and dropping the blacklists," Russia's deputy foreign minister, Alexei Meshkov, was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.
"This, in turn, would allow us to drop our lists." [We would give you this in return so pretty please]"