Moscow will not leave unanswered the expansion of anti-Russian sanctions against Russia, if the West still takes such a step, said the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov. According to Peskov, the Russian side has already imposed restrictive retaliatory measures against the sanctions imposed on it ...
The United States and other G7 countries are ready to impose new sanctions against Russia, the White House said on Wednesday following a meeting between United States Vice President Joe Biden and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. “The Vice President noted that the United States and its GXNUMX allies maintain...
US President Barack Obama extended American sanctions against representatives of the Belarusian leadership for a year. The decree states that “the actions of certain representatives of the Belarusian government pose an extreme threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.” They also “undermine democratic processes and institutions...
The EU countries have decided to extend sanctions against Crimea for another year, a diplomatic source in Brussels confirmed to the BBC. “We are talking about a political decision; it will be formalized legally a little later,” the source clarified. The current sanctions were introduced by the European Union on June 25, 2014...
State banks that have come under the sanctions are attracting foreign currency in the West. Sberbank and VTB received billions of euros through online banks in Germany, surprising European customers with unusually high rates. Russian rate Since July last year, Sberbank through its European subsidiary Sberbank Europe AG began to attract deposits in Germany. ...
The United States has secretly created a special “loophole” in its sanctions against Russia, reports Bloomberg. “This was done to allow the export of communication software to Crimea, so that Crimeans could go online and gradually destroy the control over information that the Kremlin is trying to establish,” the journalists explain...
The European Parliament, in response to the Russian “black list,” limited free access to the assembly to the permanent representative of Russia to the European Union, Vladimir Chizhov. As specified, the Russian permanent representative “will be able to visit the European Parliament, but he will need to request a pass for each visit.” Also, access to the residence of the European Parliament…
The Ambassador of the Jewish State in Kyiv, Eliav Belotserkovsky, said that Jerusalem fully supports the territorial integrity of Ukraine and does not recognize the annexation of Crimea. At the same time, the Israeli diplomat noted that his country does not plan to join Western sanctions against Russia. "We are completely...
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), in response to EU accusations of non-transparency in compiling a “black list” of EU citizens who are prohibited from entering Russia, said that decisions on each person on the list were carefully verified. The Russian Foreign Ministry refused to disclose the mechanism for adopting...
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Dmitry Rogozin, on the air of the Sunday Evening program on the Russia 1 channel, responded to Europe and the United States to sanctions and the ban on visas, saying that tanks do not need visas. “Tanks don’t need visas,” Rogozin said on the “Sunday Evening” program on the “Russia” channel...