Senator Menendez tried to convince Obama to make wider sanctions against Russia

The head of the Department of the Senate of the USA on international Affairs Senator Robert Menendez sent on the last working day of the week a letter to President Barack Obama with a requirement to make wider sanctions against Russia, for example, to impose punishment on individual sectors of Russian economy.

Menendez was subjected to charges of the Russian Federation in the ' hostile and destabilizing actions in regard to Ukraine, before repeating common state Department referring to the video in Internet messages about as if Russian tanks appeared at the disposal of the militias. Menendez Also said that the Russian Federation supports the militiamen of the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk national republics. The President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin had said that the Russian Federation is not a party to the Ukrainian conflict.

" I urge the administration to implement the available range of possibilities for a more aggressive implementation of the presidential decree 13622, which authorized the Minister of Finance to impose punishment on people working in different sectors of the Russian economy, such as financial service, energy, Metalworking, mining and engineering, defence and related products ", - said in the letter Menendez.

He Also tried to convince to impose punishment with a " grace " period to working with Russia organization had time to minimize business relations. Menendez tried to convince Obama to impose punishment together with the EU and expressed hope, because it is able to be done without significant damage to the interests of US business ".


USA on March 17 decided to impose punishment is relatively high position of Russian politicians and Ministers of foreign Affairs of the EU countries have agreed on the introduction of penalties on the Russian and Ukrainian officials, which they consider to be guilty of " undermining the territorial integrity of Ukraine ". Then in the American list of nearly 20 Russian bureaucrats, businessmen and parliamentarians. Was enlarged and the sanctions list of the EU.

the authorities of the USA has included in the list of co-owner of the Rossiya Bank of Yuri Kovalchuk, the head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, businessmen Boris and Arkady Rotenberg and Gennady Timchenko. In addition, penalties were imposed on the Bank " Russia ".
on April 28, the U.S. included in the sanctions list 7 officials of the Russian Federation and 17 organizations, and the European Union has expanded its list of fifteen people. In the end, in the sanctions lists appear more than 40 Russian politicians and businessmen, as well as among them from the Crimea. Full list of Russian Citizens and organizations that fall under punishment, -


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