Spox says US sanctions aim at setting businessmen against Putin

MOSCOW, Nov 30 (PRIME) -- The U.S. sanctions against Russia are an attempt to set wealthy businessmen against Russian President Vladimir Putin, spokesman for the president Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday.

“Do you agree with the opinion that the U.S. authorities use sanctions to try to set wealthy advocates of the Russian president among business elites against him? We answer that we are sure that this is the case,” Peskov said.

In August, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a bill introducing additional sanctions against Russia among several other states. The bill prohibits companies from investing more than U.S. $1 million in a single payment or more than $5 million during the course of a year in construction of Russian export pipelines, as well as provision of goods, services, technologies and information support for the construction.

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