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Russia: US playing with fire by imposing new sanctions
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IANS | 22 Sep, 2018
The US' latest batch of sanctions targeting Russian businesses and China
undermine global stability and are akin to playing with fire, officials
here said on Friday.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov's
comments came after Washington on Thursday imposed a new batch of
sanctions, hitting 33 of Russia's most high-profile citizens with ties
to the Kremlin.
Ryabkov said the sanctions were aimed at Russian defence organizations, politicians and businessmen.
"It
would be good for them to recall the notion of global stability, which
they recklessly upset by whipping up tensions in Russian-US relations,"
Ryabkov said in a statement cited by TASS news agency. "It's foolish to
play with fire, because things could get dangerous."
"We've been
keeping a close eye on how the US applies it sanctions against our
country. This seems to have turned into some sort of national sport,
with yesterday's anti-Russian measures becoming the 60th since 2011.
"Every
new round of sanctions shows that our enemy's previous attempts to
pressure Russia have failed to yield any result. Numerous US blacklists
duplicate each other more and more. That's funny, but this is true," the
minister said.
Among the blacklisted people was billionaire
mogul Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as "PutinĀ“s chef" and allegedly
responsible for orchestrating the digital fake news campaign against the
US.
The security and military businesses targeted by the
sanctions included the Wagner Group, a private security company which
Moscow allegedly use in their Syria operations; Oboronlogistika 000,
responsible for feeding and transporting Russian troops in Crimea and
KnAAPO, an aircraft manufacturer.
China was also targeted in the new wave of sanctions for buying weapons from a previously blacklisted Russian arms dealer.
"We
recommend that Washington's operators of the sanctions machine at least
superficially acquaint themselves with our history to stop going round
in circles," Ryabkov said.
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