Punishment against Russia harm by the United States and will not help to achieve the isolation of Russia, said on the first day of the week in the US capital, the Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak.

" The Russian Federation is impossible to isolate. Russia has a lot of interests and ties in the world, " the Ambassador said, speaking at the Symposium, organized in the premises of the Senate of the USA the American University in the capital of Russia.

According to Kislyak, punishment " harm the standing of the United States as a long-term partner."

The diplomat assured that, although the punishment and the attempt to form a " likeness of the Commonwealth " isolation of Russia became the " great disappointment " in Russian-American relations, the two countries need to return to the interaction.

" the number of issues that we work together, much more than those where we find common positions, " said Kislyak." The potential of our relations is enormous - in the economy, politics and other spheres ", - he added.


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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