‘Elite Behind Soros and McCain Pushing for’ New US Anti-Russia Sanctions
SputnikNews.com
20.06.2017
The newly imposed US sanctions against Russia are designed to complicate bilateral ties between Moscow and Washington, Thierry Mariani, a member from the French center-right The Republicans party and co-president of the Franco-Russian Dialogue Association, told Sputnik on Tuesday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, the US Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) introduced sanctions against some 40 individuals and entities over their alleged involvement in the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. The list of those under the new sanctions includes several high-ranking Crimean officials and Russian Special Presidential Representative for Cooperation with Organizations Representing Russians Living Abroad Alexander Babakov, as well as the PMC Wagner private military company, three banks operating in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and six banks operating in Crimea.
“They continue on that dead-end road. The previous wave of sanctions achieved absolutely no results, and clearly, new sanctions will have the same effect. The only goal for this is to have more tension and complicate relations between America and Russia,” Mariani said.
The lawmaker added that he was “a bit disappointed,” as he was expecting changes in US policies under President Donald Trump.
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