The beginning of a dialogue with the United States on the abolition of sanctions against Russia is a positive step, but the responsibility for the execution of the Minsk agreements cannot be confined only to the Russian Federation, told reporters the head of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, explaining the visit of U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry in Sochi, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov. Kerry said the goal of the U.S. is not keeping anti-Russian sanctions, but they are important for ensuring peace in Ukraine and the implementation of the Minsk agreements. "Probably, there was no breakthrough, but the fact of the talks is a positive fact. We once again showed that they are ready to dialogue. Also can be seen as a positive signal raised by Mr. Kerry the question of the abolition of sanctions against Russia, but, unfortunately, this is due to that only on the Russian Federation responsible for the implementation of the Minsk agreements ", - said Matvienko. She clarified that the execution of the Minsk agreements depends, in the 1st turn, from the actions of the authorities in Kiev, as long as making insufficient efforts to implement them." If the lifting of sanctions with Russia and will continue to be caused by the actions of the Kiev authorities, nothing good will happen ", - said Matvienko. review of the head of the Federation Council, the U.S. government must exert pressure on Ukraine's leadership to compel it to fulfill agreements reached." instead to force the Kiev authorities to sit down at the negotiating table with his people, with their inhabitants, who have a different point of view, to find a political solution, instead of to force the Kiev authorities to strictly comply with the Minsk consensus with regards to the political part, All the time these rules are put in front of Russia. We do Everything possible and impossible to the Minsk agreement have been made, but We are not party to the conflict ", - said Matvienko. in her expressions, the responsibility for what is happening in Ukraine are completely Kiev authorities." We need to demand the full implementation of the Minsk agreements, but as long as We see no intent to give real autonomy and rights of the regions of Ukraine to decentralize management, We see no desire to invite the regions that have a different point of view, to the discussion of the Constitution. All this is carried out without considering the opinion of the regions of the Southeast. We do not see persistent intentions (on the part of the Kiev authorities) to ensure the implementation of the Minsk agreements ", - said the head of the Federation Council. Western countries since March 2014 several times already imposed penalties because Russia's position on Ukraine. The last case of the use of such practices were the limits imposed in March 2015, when expanded sanctions List of the USA. The list of Russian citizens and organizations who have fallen under the punishment - in the material of the Fins news