In Austria pondered the revision of sanctions against Russia
Chancellor of Austria, Christian Kern urged to reconsider sanctions against Russia.
It is reported Bloomberg.
According to Core, we need another concept, “which would bring more benefit and would not be so economically harmful for Europe”.
He also said he supported a partial lifting of sanctions in exchange for progress in the observance of the Minsk agreements.
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We will remind that earlier the United States expanded sanctions against Russia over the situation in Ukraine.
In the sanctions list included seven individuals: Mikhail Dedov, Michael KLISHIN, Kirill Kovalchuk, Dmitry Lebedev, Dmitry Mansurov, Oleg Minaev and Yevgeny Prigozhin.
It should be noted that 19 December 2016, sanctions against Russia and the extended EU. So, the European Council formally extended sectoral sanctions against Russia until 31 July 2017.
Note that sectoral sanctions against Russia from the EU was introduced in July 2014 and extended in September 2014. These measures are in three main areas.