The decision is a response to the introduction by the United States of sanctions against representatives of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
Russia, in response to U.S. sanctions against State Duma representatives, has blacklisted 398 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. This was announced on Wednesday, April 13, on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
“In response to the next“ wave ”of anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the George Biden Administration on March 24 this year against 328 representatives of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, which, it is considered Russia’s parliamentarians. formerly blacklisted, making up almost its entire composition, restrictions on “mirror” sanctions were introduced against 398 members of the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress, “the agency said in a statement.
It noted that American congressmen are included “in the Russian” stop list “on a permanent basis” They, like other sanctioned US lawmakers, are banned from entering the territory of the Russian Federation.
At the same time, the Russian Foreign Ministry, “taking into account the ongoing U.S. sanctions,” announced an increase in the number of people against whom “countermeasures” were introduced.
Similar sanctions were also imposed against 87 senators of the Parliament of Canada in connection with Ottawa’s decision to blacklist all Russian senators. The Canadian Senate has 105 seats.
The United States has imposed sanctions against Russian representatives at several stages. Thus, on March 11, 12 members of the lower house of the Federal Assembly, including the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov and the speaker of the Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, fell under the restrictions. On March 24, sanctions were imposed against 328 representatives, as well as against the State Duma itself as an institution. Thus, at least 340 deputies are included in the American blacklists, in total there are 450 seats in the State Duma.
Canada imposed sanctions against 160 Russian senators on March 24 “for facilitating and condoning violations of the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine.”
Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the European Union to impose an oil embargo on Russia. He also noted that Europe must show a clear readiness to renounce all of Russia’s energy resources.
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Source: korrespondent
