Official: Moscow to respond to latest US sanctions

MOSCOW, Nov 15 (PRIME) -- Moscow will respond to the U.S. expansion of the anti-Russian sanctions list, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told PRIME on Tuesday.

On Monday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said introduced sanctions against six deputies of the Russian State Duma, the parliament’s lower house, which represented Crimea -- Ruslan Balbek, Konstantin Bakharev, Andrei Kozenko, Svetlana Savchenko, Pavel Shrepov, and Dmitry Belik.

“Our response will obviously follow. We will not announce the form and the kind of the response right now,” he said, adding that he hopes that the Barack Obama administration will be replaced with people who are more responsible towards U.S.–Russia relations.

“We have another goal, we should look into the future and aim at a more positive agenda when authors of the failed policy retire, and will be replaced with people who are more responsible toward relations with Russia. We hope this will happen.”

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