Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that the stability of Russia’s economy is fully guaranteed despite new U.S. sanctions.
Total stability is fully guaranteed, our regulator operates moderately and successfully, and our economic conglomerate’s working efficiency is internationally recognized.
We see no reason to doubt its effectiveness
Peskov said.
US President Joe Biden announced financial and diplomatic sanctions against Russia on Thursday, as Washington said Moscow had carried out cyberattacks and interfered in the US presidential election last year.
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Bischoff stressed that Russia’s reliance on imposing sanctions is unacceptable for Russia. He said that Moscow would respond on the basis of reciprocity and that the last word would be from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He did not answer a question about whether the Russian side would take into account Biden’s warning that Moscow would not cross the border with response measures.
Regarding the phone talks that Putin and Biden held on Tuesday, Bischoff said that the Russian president did not stipulate a bilateral summit in a third country.
Putin will also make the final decision on this issue.
The spokesman claimed that the Russian president was the first to suggest a face-to-face meeting with his partner in the US office earlier. He said there had been no decision yet on whether Putin would attend the climate summit via videoconference next week, at the initiative of Biden.
According to Peskov, the fact that the ceasefire in the Donetsk Basin has been repeatedly violated in recent days is not a reassurance in itself. He expressed his hope that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron would use their influence to realize Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: The provocative actions and support for the Minsk agreements on the settlement in Ukraine must be stopped unconditionally.
Bischoff did not respond to Ukraine’s protest against the regional closure justified by Russian naval exercises in the Black Sea, and referred the matter to the Ministry of Defense. Kiev has complained that Moscow will close the part of the Black Sea of the Kerch Strait to foreign warships and other ships until October of next week.
The spokesman expressed his hope that Ankara would eventually be able to convince it to belong to Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, while excluding the possibility of Kiev.
Russia, in response to the US sanctions, has advised the US ambassador to travel home for consultations and will also expel 10 other US diplomats.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters in Moscow on Friday.
According to Lavrov, the advisor to the Russian President Yuri Usakov recommended John Sullivan to the US ambassador when he asked his office on Friday to return to Washington for consultations like his Russian counterpart.
Kommersant wrote that this was an actual expulsion.
However, the comment noted that, unlike the declaration of persona non grata (this happened to US Ambassador George Kennan to the Soviet Union in 1952), this is a milder move by which the receiving party indicates that the head of mission may return to his post at a later time. However, the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations does not recognize the concept of sending an ambassador for diplomatic consultations.
The rapprochement between China and Russia could damage the American head
It is doubtful whether the contact between the US and Russian presidents is a step forward, and geopolitical tensions in the West and East appear to be continuing and forcing Moscow to work more closely with Beijing, which is also locked in a multi-front conflict with the West.
