Fresh punishment EU against Russia will take effect from 1 August
Economic sanctions against Russia are required to be presented on July 31 and enter into force on 1 August. fresh punishment forbids citizens and EU companies to buy and sell fresh bonds, stocks with a maturity of more than 90 days, issued by the state Bank of Russia, RIA " Novosti ". Punishment will prohibit the export from the EU to Russia products for deep sea oil exploration in the Arctic exploration and the creation of oil projects shale oil. Also the EU officially confirmed that included in the sanctions list on Ukraine 8 people and 3 legal entities, their names will be presented on Wednesday. First head of the European Council Herman van Rompuy and the head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso has said officially about the fact that sectoral Economic punishment is relatively Russia agreed. On Tuesday, the source said that the staff of the foreign Ministry on 28 of the EU countries approved the introduction of sectoral sanctions against Russia. As noted, fresh punishment affected the oil sector, defence, trade in dual-use goods and technologies. Punishment have the opportunity to be reviewed after 3 months. States that punishment will be approved by the EU Council by written procedure, without convening of the EU summit. According to the Western media, in case of introduction of the EU sectoral punishment, the Russian economy will suffer harm 100 billion in 2014 and 2015. 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 ".