Russia says it has measures it can take against the USA
MOSCOW – Russia still has counter measures it can take against the United States in a tit-for-tat sanctions battle, but is keeping its powder dry for now, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the Izvestia newspaper in an interview published on Monday.
With relations strained over Syria, Ukraine and US allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 US presidential election, something Moscow denies, ties between the two countries have slid to a post-Cold War low.
The US Treasury Department last week named 210 people, including 96 "oligarchs" with wealth of $1 billion or more, on a list of people deemed to be close to the Kremlin as part of a sanctions package signed into law in August last year.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that unspecified sanctions would "come out" of the report.
