Lithuania considers insufficient fresh penalties against Russia, but does Not propagate to new sanctions, said the head of the country Dalia Grybauskaite after the EU summit.
" Not that We had requested. We make it clear that these punishments, even today punishment insufficient and inadequate way affect the behavior of the Kremlin in Eastern Ukraine, " said Grybauskaite, answering the question that agitates whether Lithuania to strengthen punishment, RIA " Novosti ". The head of Lithuania considers that the measures " are Not directly used against those responsible for the occupation of the Crimea, in the dissemination of military actions in the East of Ukraine, in the supply of military equipment ". The U.S. Treasury Department said on Wednesday on the introduction of new sanctions against a number of Russian companies and credit organizations, and Also of some persons, for example, will be denied access to the US financial markets, and us companies and private persons are prohibited to grant companies loans for the period more than 90 days. The United States also have the opportunity to put pressure on any foreign organizations conducting business in the USA with the requirement to refuse the business included in the sanctions list of the Russian companies. Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov, explaining the introduction of a new package of sanctions, said that US policy regarding capital of Russia arrogant and cynical." The arrogance and cynicism are the two words that most accurately characterizes us policy in the Russian direction, " He said. The President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin, for his part, said that " it quietly and without fuss show, it's for punishment." He noticed that the sentences have a boomerang effect and driving Russian-American relations into a dead end.

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