MOSCOW: The Russian government has made a retaliation action after imposition of US sanctions; as announces entry ban on American lawmakers and officials on Thursday (today), ABC News reported.
Significant development has been emerged after imposition of US sanctions on Russia as President Barack Obama announced bans over Russian officials and a bank today over Moscow’s actions against Ukraine.
Russian FO list:
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday released the list including House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio and Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
It also names Ben Rhodes, a deputy U.S. national security adviser along with other White House advisers, Caroline Atkinson and Dan Pfeiffer, along with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. and Senators John McCain, R-Ariz., Mary Landrieu, D-La. and Dan Coats, R-Ind.
The Russian Foreign Ministry misspelled Reid’s name as Reed.
The move came minutes after President Barack Obama introduced a new round of U.S. sanctions, including some senior Kremlin officials and lawmakers along with businessmen close to President Vladimir Putin.
“There should be no doubt, we will respond in kind to any hostile action,” the Foreign Ministry said. “We have warned repeatedly that the use of sanctions is a double-edged sword that will boomerang against the United States.”
US sanctions:
US President Barack Obama imposed sanctions on more Russian officials and a bank Thursday and threatened to target the broader Russian economy if Moscow escalates its actions against Ukraine, AFP reported.
“Russia must know that further escalation will only isolate it further from the international community,” Obama said at the White House.
The new measures targeted a new list of 20 lawmakers and senior government officials in addition to 11 people already sanctioned by Washington.
Obama made his announced just hours after Russian lawmakers rubber-stamped a treaty signed by President Vladimir Putin to absorb the Ukrainian region of Crimea into Russia.
The US move freezes assets within American jurisdiction and bars US firms from conducting business with those concerned.
The US Treasury Department identified the financial institution involved as Aktsionerny Bank of the Russian Federation, also known as Bank Rossiya.
Senior officials said the bank held significant assets of the Russian ruling elite and key figures around Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Bank Rossiya?s shareholders include members of Putin’s inner circle associated with the Ozero Dacha Cooperative, a housing community in which they live,” the US Treasury said.
Obama said: “Now we’re taking these steps as part of a response to what Russia has already done in Crimea.”
But he also raised the prospect of tougher future action if Russian behavior does not change, adding he had signed a new executive order that would allow him to target specific sectors of the Russian economy.
“This is not our preferred outcome,” Obama said, warning that the moves would have a “significant impact” on the Russian economy.
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