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US House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada), and a number of other US officials have been placed under sanctions imposed by the Russian government.
Moscows sanctions which came in retaliation for US sanctions against a number of Russian officials targets a bipartisan group of six US lawmakers and three White House officials. The names of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey), and senators John McCain (R-Arizona), Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana), and Dan Coats (R-Indiana) appeared on the reciprocal sanctions list issued by Russias Foreign Ministry. Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economics Caroline Atkinson, senior White House adviser Daniel Pfeiffer, and Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes were also targeted by the Kremlins sanctions.
McCain, Menendez, and Boehner said they were happy that their names were on Russias sanctions list.Moscows sanctions came after US President Barack Obama expanded the list of Russian individuals targeted by Washingtons sanctions and put Bank Rossiya on the list, too. The names of twenty seven Russian officials have so far been placed on Obamas sanctions list.Treating our country in such way, as Washington could have already ascertained, is inappropriate and counterproductive, read a statement published on the Russian Foreign Ministrys website.Nevertheless, it looks like the American side continues to blindly believe in the effectiveness of such methods, taken from the arsenal of the past, and does not want to face the obvious: the people of Crimea, in a democratic way in full accordance with international law and UN regulations, voted to join Russia, which respects and accepts this choice. You may like this decision or not, but we are talking about a reality, which needs to be taken into consideration, the statement added.
Nearly 97 percent of residents of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea voted to break away from Ukraine and rejoin Russia in a referendum on Sunday.On Monday, Crimea declared independence and formally applied to become part of Russia. Next day, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty making Crimea part of Russia, saying the vote demonstrated the overwhelming will of the Crimean people to be reunited with Russia after 60 years as part of the Ukrainian republic.
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