Moscow officials swear retaliation after president Joe Biden
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“All of this is just an excuse to continue overt interference in our internal affairs,” Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, said in a statement released Tuesday, Reuters said. “We do not intend to accept this. We will respond based on the principle of reciprocity, but not necessarily symmetrically. “
The Biden government said earlier in the day that it planned to issue sanctions and accused Russian intelligence of attempting to assassinate Navalny. The outspoken critic of the Kremlin and the Russian president Vladimir Putin
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“Our goal is to have a relationship with Russia that is predictable and stable. Where there are opportunities to be constructive and it is in our best interest, we intend to pursue them. Given Russia’s behavior in recent years, there will no doubt be hostile elements as well and we will not shy away from that, ”a senior government official told The Hill this week. “The United States is not trying to restore our relations with Russia, nor are we trying to escalate.”
The new sanctions against Russia are targeting seven senior officials in the country. The US also imposes export controls on various business entities involved in the production of biological agents.
The government is using the authority granted under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 to extend the sanctions imposed on Russia in response to the March 2018 poisoning of the former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Great Britain.
Moscow rejected the latest sanctions, suggesting they have no teeth and no merits.
Despite America’s ‘sanction addiction’, we will consistently and decisively defend our national interests and reject any aggression. We urge our colleagues not to play with fire, ”said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.