"THIS IS A NON-PRIORITY TO RUSSIA" Putin sharply attacks the Americans over the list of Russian oligarchs and politicians threatened with sanctions
"THIS IS A NON-PRIORITY TO RUSSIA" Putin sharply attacks the Americans over the list of Russian oligarchs and politicians threatened with sanctions Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday a list of the US Treasury Department listing a number of prominent officials close to the Kremlin under the threat of sanctions, calling it an "enemy act." This list will, according to the Russian president, surely additionally complicate US Russian relations and "harm international relations as a whole". "In fact, all the people on that list are characterized as enemies of the United States," Putin's spokesman Dimitry Peskov said . The mentioned list is part of a package of sanctions passed last August as a law, but that does not mean that those whose names are found on it will be subject to sanctions. But for a wide circle of rich Russians there is always a danger that they will still be hit by sanctions. The list, ...
