Hold on, Hamerica!

Russia is not going to "endlessly endure some kind of rudeness" and will certainly respond to American sanctions. This was stated by Vladimir Putin at a joint press conference with Finland President Sauli Ninisto, Interfax reports .

According to Putin, the new American bill on sanctions is an attempt to use the geopolitical advantages of the United States in competition. "These are actions with aggravating circumstances and, as I would say, with special cynicism. This is clearly an attempt to use their geopolitical advantages in the competition in order to ensure their economic interests at the expense of their associates in this case," the Russian president said.

“We have not yet seen the final option, so we don’t have a final opinion on this subject either,” said Putin. “We, as you know, behave very restrained, patiently, but at some point we will have to answer. It is impossible to endlessly endure some kind of rudeness in relation to our country.”

Washington’s actions, in particular, the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the United States and the rejection of diplomatic property, Putin considers a violation of international law. "Sanctions are also absolutely illegal from the point of view of international law. They violate the principles of international trade and the rules of the World Trade Organization," the Russian president said.

On Thursday, Kommersant, citing unnamed sources in the Russian Foreign Ministry, announced that the response to the adoption of the United States new sanctions against Russia could be the arrest of the summer complex of the American embassy in the village of Serebryany Bor in the west of Moscow, as well as the diplomatic warehouses. The interlocutors of the publication explain such a measure that the new law on sanctions makes it virtually impossible to return to Russia two cottages of her embassy in the United States , arrested as President of Barack Obama.

Another solution may be the expulsion of 35 American diplomats from Russia - exactly the same number of officials of the Russian diplomatic mission was sent from the United States in December last year. Along with this, it is not excluded that Moscow will limit the maximum number of employees of the American embassy - now it is more than in the Russian diplomatic mission in Washington.

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives of the US Congress adopted a bill on new sanctions against Russia, as well as Iran and DPRK with an overwhelming majority vote . In support of the document, 419 congressmen spoke, against - only three. Now the bill must be adopted by the Senate, and then - signed by President Donald Trump. Earlier, the White House has already stated that in principle they approve of the document.

About half of the bill is devoted to anti -Russian sanctions. It is noted that they are introduced "in response to a crisis in eastern Ukraine, cyber attacks, as well as human rights violations in Russia." The same document provides for the consolidation of the previous orders of the US administration at the legislative level and obliges the president of the country to coordinate any mitigation of sanctions with Congress.

Even before the vote in the House of Representatives, the bill caused criticism of the European Commission . Officials expressed concern that the document would affect the "EU Energy Independence", as well as entail "negative political consequences." They emphasized that the sanctions policy should be consistent with all G7 participants.

On Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry of France stated on the "illegality" of the bill. In Paris, as before in Brussels, they emphasized that the document "will impose penalties on European companies and European individuals."