Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexey Meshkov, explaining the appeal of Greece on lifting the embargo on deliveries of a number of agricultural items in the Russian Federation, said that the problem of punishment is common to all countries, and not separately Greece.

"The question is not Greece - General, from punishment to suffer all those, who introduces them, and those who answer it. This is not the way that offers Russia ", - said Deputy Minister in response to a request to comment on the appeal of the Greek government to the Russian Federation with a request to cancel an embargo on the supply side of agricultural products, introduced in the summer of 2014 in response to the punishment of the European Union.


Western countries since March has repeatedly imposed punishment on a number of Russian politicians, businessmen and organizations because of the position of Russia in Ukraine. The last case of the use of such practices began in December limits, when the head of the U.S. announced an economic blockade of the Crimea, and in the sanctions List included a number of famous figures from the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.

The list of Russian Citizens and organizations, first fell under the sentence, the material of the Fins news

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