Russia plays in debt

Washington is in an endless “sanction duty” to Moscow, but Russia will not take response measures that could harm its interests, as well as regional and global stability. This was stated by the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Ryabkov, Interfax reports .

Now, under US sanctions are about 400 Russian organizations and about 200 citizens. "If we now compare this with what has been done by Russia in response, you will see that the American duty, by and large, is endless. We can, in full right, guided by the logic of international relations and the doctrine of international law, which allows us to respond similarly to hostile actions, to apply, in fact, any measures in relation to the United States in these areas, but we understand that it would be in some cases - it would be in some cases - it would be in some cases. By the influence of itself, ”Ryabkov emphasized.

In some cases, retaliatory measures, “if they are asymmetric, non -grained, can cause damage to regional and global security,” the deputy minister said. “That is why we have not turned the dialogue with the United States on regional conflicts, moreover, in Syria recently we have been there serious progress in dialogue with the United States,” Ryabkov said.

According to the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, with the advent of the Donald Trump administration, "there is an opportunity for a certain improvement in Russian-American relations."

Negotiations in Moscow and Washington on the issue of diplomatic development are still frozen, Ryabkov noted. According to him, after the adoption of the law on additional sanctions in the United States, "the possibility of returning this property without a separate decision of the American congress was reduced, in fact, to zero."

The decisions adopted by the previous US administration regarding diplomatic development will be a problem that will complicate the relations of the two countries for a long time, Ryabkov believes. "They created new circumstances in our relations, unprecedented. And they created a bench that will be painfully responding for a very long time," the deputy minister said.

At the end of December 2016, the US authorities sent 35 Russian diplomats from the country . At the same time, employees of the Russian diplomatic mission were given 24 hours to leave two embassy cottages in New York and Maryland. According to the previous president of Barack Obama, these cottages were used by Russian intelligence. Obama’s decision was a response to Moscow’s intervention in the American presidential campaign and the persecution of American diplomats in Russia.

Moscow then refrained from response measures. However, on July 28, Russia, in response to the law on the new US sanctions, suspended the use of a summer house in the village of Serebryany Bor in the west of Moscow and warehouses on the road street. In addition, Moscow demanded that Washington reduce the number of diplomats and technical employees at the embassy, ​​as well as the Consulate General of up to 455 people - this is how many employees are now working in Russian diplomatic mission in the United States. According to Vladimir Putin, 755 employees of American representative offices will fall under the reduction.

On August 7, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, after negotiations with the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrome, stated that the US administration would have developed a response to the steps taken by Russia by September 1 . However, according to Tillerson, Washington has not yet decided which answer will follow the Demarch of Russia. Tillerson noted that in the negotiations he asked Lavrov “several clarifying questions” about the expulsion of diplomats.

On Monday, the US Embassy in Moscow announced the suspension of the issuance of American non -immigration visas in Russia. "In connection with the measures adopted by the Russian Federation to limit the number of employees of the US diplomatic mission in the Russian Federation, starting on August 23, 2017, the procedure for issuing non -immigrant visas throughout Russia will be suspended. The procedure for issuing non -immigration visas will be renewed, but in a significantly reduced volume," the embassy said.