Russian Foreign Ministry: sanctions will hit ordinary Americans

The new US sanctions against Russian oligarchs and security forces will damage the Americans themselves, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. "Washington politicians have reached such absurdity that they are trying to hit our companies that have long supported business ties with the United States, on which thousands of jobs depend there. In other words, they are beating for ordinary Americans, their own voters, destroy economic cooperation to the detriment," the statement said.

Since 2011, the Russian Foreign Ministry has calculated more than 50 episodes of the introduction of US anti -Russian sanctions. "Washington continues to frighten with refusals in American visas, threatens the Russian business with freezing of property and financial assets, forgetting that rewarding private property and other people's money is called robbery," Smolenskaya Square said. One of the goals of American sanctions is to eliminate competitors in foreign markets, says the Russian side. Thus, “Washington actually recorded himself against opponents of the market economy and free honest competition,” as well as the property of freedom of speech, limiting the broadcasting of the Kremlin channel RT, and also violates the right of freedom.

The Foreign Ministry again assures that "no pressure measures will turn Russia from the chosen course," but only "consolidate Russian society." Moscow intends to give a "tough answer" to the "new anti -Russian attack".

On Friday, a new sanctions list with 24 names of Russians from the closed part of the so -called "Kremlin report" was published. The sanctions were introduced in particular against the chairman of Gazprom’s board, Alexei Miller, Oleg Deripaska oligarchs, Igor Rotenberg, Viktor Vekselberg, Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars, Nikolai Patrushev, head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov, commander of Rosgvardiy Viktor Zolotov, Minister of Internal Affairs, Senator Suleiman Suleyman Kerimova, ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, head of Vneshtorgbank Andrei Kostin, a member of the reign of the Sibur holding Kirill Shamalov. Sanctions are also imposed against 12 companies belonging to them.

On the same day, the assets of the defendants in the list sharply fell: in particular, the shares of Deripaska's companies have depreciated more than $ 3 billion.

The State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that "Russian businessmen who fell under sanctions must be supported."

"The new sanctions announced today will continue to attempt the administration to confront the destabilizing and malicious behavior of Russia," the White House website says.

"The Russian authorities commit many nasty acts around the world, they continue to occupy Crimea and provoke violence in the east of Ukraine, supply the Assad regime, bombing their own citizens, raw materials and weapons, trying to undermine the democratic states of the West and carry out malicious actions in cyberspace. Russian oligarchs and elites, making this dishonest system, will no longer be isolated from the actions of this dishonest The consequences of the destabilizing activity of his government, ”said the head of the US Treasury, Stephen Menushin.