The US administration wants to assess the impact of the Russian Federation have adopted against her fresh punishment, said on Wednesday authorized official of the White house Eric Schultz.
" At the moment We are focusing on those significant sanctions, which on Tuesday said the European Union and the USA, - he said.- We are already seeing serious impact that punishment had on the Russian economy ", ITAR-TASS reported." We will do so given the ads were not in vain, and see forced whether they President (Vladimir) Putin to change his strategy, " drew the attention of the Commissioner of the White house. On Wednesday, the EU Council approved the inclusion of additional eight people and three organizations in the updated blacklist for Russia and Ukraine, the total number of participants this list has grown to 95 people and 23 of legal entities. It also says that the EU has banned fresh investments in projects in the Crimea and Sevastopol in the area of transport, infrastructure, telecommunications, energy, and similarly in the field of oil, gas and mineral resources. On Tuesday the EU blesed package sectoral sanctions against Russia, which will be posted on Thursday in a published journal of the European Union and shall enter into force on the next day after the publication. Punishment will be approved by the EU Council by written procedure, without convening of the EU summit. In addition, on Tuesday, the US imposed sanctions against the Bank of Moscow, VTB and Russian agricultural Bank and the United shipbuilding Corporation (USC). Citizens and U.S. companies are prohibited to purchase debt obligations of these credit institutions or related entities, and Also to carry with them any transaction for a period of more than 90 days. Answering the question whether Moscow to take countermeasures at sectoral punishment, the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia S. Lavrov Century said that Russia would respond " with a sober head ".

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