Moscow officials promise retaliation after president Joe Biden
Joe Biden, head of the interception bureau: minimum wage was not a ‘high priority’ for Biden in the COVID-19 relief in the South Carolina Senate, adding a firing squad as an alternative method of execution. this week announced sanctions for the poisoning and imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
“All of this is just an excuse to continue open interference in our internal affairs,” Maria Zakharova, a Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, told Reuters in a statement. “We do not intend to endure it. We will respond based on the principle of reciprocity, but not necessarily symmetrically. ”
The Biden administration said earlier in the day that it planned to issue sanctions and accused the Russian intelligence agency of attempting to assassinate Navalny. The outspoken critic of the Kremlin and the Russian president Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich PutinWray points to federal response to SolarWinds hack Kremlin: Muskie invitation to Putin to discuss’ some kind of misunderstanding ‘at Clubhouse’ Bid to punish Russia for Navalny poisoning, jail time MORE was poisoned late last summer and has since recovered.
“Our goal is to have a predictable and stable relationship with Russia. Where there are opportunities to be constructive, and it is in our interest, we intend to pursue them. “Given Russia’s actions over the past few years, there will undoubtedly be conflicting elements, and we will not shy away from them, ‘a senior administrative official told The Hill this week. “The United States is not trying to restore our relations with Russia, nor do we want to escalate.”
The new sanctions against Russia are aimed at seven high-ranking officials in the country. The US also imposes export controls on various business entities involved in the production of biological agents.
The administration is using the authorization granted under the Chemical and Biological Weapons and Warfare Act in 1991 to extend sanctions against Russia in response to the poisoning of former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter in March 2018, Yulia, in Great Britain.
Moscow has rejected the latest sanctions, indicating that they have no teeth and that they have no merit.
Regardless of America’s ‘sanctions addiction’, we will continue to defend our national interests consistently and decisively and fend off any aggression. We urge our colleagues not to play with fire, “said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.