Moscow to retaliate the Kremlin Report keeping its own interests

Russia is not going to retaliate for the publication of the so-called Kremlin Report to the damage of its own interests, according to Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov. He has assured that Russia is not going to strictly follow the principle of mirror reflection, as per Izvestia newspaper.

The answer will follow when the head of state decides that the high time comes having investigated all current circumstances, the senior official added. 

He has reminded that Russia has already taken counter measures including expansion of its own sanction lists containing foreign politicians, public figures known for their anti-Russian views.  

Other steps are to be taken too, such as cutting down the number of US Embassy staff present in Russia. Besides, Moscow has made a decision to stop its participation in three nuclear agreements with Washington. American party was informed that this measure was a response to unfriendly politics of the former US administration executed towards Russia.

Several reactions on such steps were tried out too. This is not all means Russia owns, Sergei Ryabkov has emphasized. They will be used in case of the corresponding political decision.

Note that the Kremlin Report was presented in the framework of new US law on Sanctions and Opponents of the United States. The report includes 200 names of Russian senior officials, heads of state corporations and major businessmen.

Russkiy Mir