Russia to give tit-for-tat response to US sanctions – deputy FM

Moscow will give a tit-for-tat response to the expansion of US blacklists of Russian companies and individuals, according to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov. “We have been watching the US lists expand,” he said in Geneva on Thursday. “They currently contain about 450 Russian economic entities.” In fact, all the major financial, energy and defense companies have been sanctioned, as well as a great many other big and small entities and a significant number of state officials, Ryabkov noted. “Stop lists and lists of individuals sanctioned by us will be expanded,” TASS quoted him as saying. “The Americans should not think they have impunity simply because those holding US passports have the right to enter any country,” he added.