The residence of the U.S. Ambassador did not comment on the initiative of the Russian senators to make wider sanctions list of the Russian Federation, including U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry, said Last news Commissioner of the Embassy William Stevens.

A proposal to penalize Kerry and his deputies expressed member of the international Department of the Federation Council Igor Morozov. This measure, according to his vision, should be the answer to the failure of the visit of the delegation of the Federation Council in the United States.

"the residence of the U.S. Ambassador does not comment on such statements or offers of Russian senators," said Stevens.

The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko and other members of the Russian delegation decided not to participate in the session of the inter-Parliamentary Union in new York after the U.S. issued Matvienko truncated visa. Under the terms of the visa Matviyenko would be unable to participate in the session of the Union. For it would be available only to the meeting by the UN.

The United States imposed in March last year punishment against a number of Russian and Ukrainian bureaucrats. Moscow responded " mirror measures ", in the list, for example, were U.S. senators John Sidney McCain and Mary Landry, the leader of the faction of the majority in the Senate Harry Reid, and house Speaker commissioners John Boehner. Similarly, in response to a list the capital of Russia became the U.S. President, Daniel Pfeiffer and Benjamin Rhodes.

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