US ready to impose new sanctions against Russia, said Tuesday the agency Bloomberg citing Deputy Finance USA Sigal Mandelker.
According to her,, Russia may suffer “significant costs in response to a series of malicious actions, taken by the Russian leadership”. Mandelker noted, what, Through these actions in Russia “oligarchs and government elite receive disproportionate benefits”.
they, who profit from this corrupt system, They will no longer be protected from the effects of destabilizing activities of his government – said Mandelker.
US Treasury 6 April published a list of Russian businessmen, officials and companies, against which the sanctions were imposed.
Introduction Office of sanctions due to the fact, that the Russian government "is pernicious activities around the world", namely the continued "occupation of Crimea and the provocation of violence in the east of Ukraine", It supplies weapons to the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria, He is trying to undermine the Western democracies and conducts subversive activities in cyberspace.
At the same time the finance minister said Steven Mnuchin, that the Russian oligarchs and elites, who are the beneficiaries of the corrupt system, "They will no longer be isolated from the effects of destabilizing activities of his government".
