The Minister of the Russian Federation Nikolay Nikiforov with humor reacted to the inclusion in the list of punishments of Ukraine and suggested that it could be due to the advent of the 3G network in Crimea.

"If it happens, see it as respect for the appearance of the 3G network in the Crimea ", - smiling, said the Minister of correspondents.

the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday enacted a punishment against the Russian Federation for a period of one year. The sanctions list has incorporated 388 physical and 105 legal entities. In addition to Nikiforov, the list includes, for example, the Head of the Ministry of defense of Russia Sergey Shoigu, the speaker of the state Duma Sergey Naryshkin, the Head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, children's Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov, Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation Sergey Glazyev, leader of "Fair Russia" Sergey Mironov, the Head of the Ministry of agriculture of the Russian Federation Alexander Tkachev.

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