A senior U.S. official warned this week that the United States will “take action in response to growing Russian support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro,” S&P Global Plattsreported. “We are looking at additional sanctions, personal sanctions, economic sanctions that we think will bring more pressure,” Elliot Abrams, the State Department’s Venezuela envoy, told reporters. Abrams, who did not specify what the sanctions would be, said the U.S. had been looking closely at Russia’srolein Venezuela and would not allow the level of support to go unchecked. President Donald Trump’s administration has sanctioned. Read more...
Washington will never remove sanctions on Moscow because this is what its policies have been based on for years, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said while answering questions from users of theVKontaktesocial network on Friday. “I can tell you frankly: they will never remove sanctions on Russia because their policies – at least in the past 100 years – have been based on the continuous use of sanctions against our country, no matter what it is called, the Soviet Union or the Russian Federation. There hasn’t been a single historical period when there were no sanctions at all,” Medvedev said, according toIzvestya. The Russian prime. Read more...
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