Russian Foreign Ministry: relations with the US are up cool – Polish Radio

CRISIS IN UKRAINE – special service & gt; & gt; & gt ;

During so. parliamentary hearings, which was titled “Russia-USA. The temporary exacerbation or a new cold war?” Ryabkov described the current relations between Moscow and Washington as cool in the highest degree.
– I can not tell if it was a new edition of the Cold War and how long will the current period. I know that out of this situation with US sanctions we will have a long time – Ryabkov said. He added that he is confident that the US will refuse to recognize the Crimea as part of the Russian Federation “for decades”.
Ryabkov also accused the US of using sanctions to remove from power the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
According to Ryabkov as formally declared to force Russia to change its stance on the issue of Ukraine lies “task of creating socio-economic conditions for the change of power in Russia.” The deputy head of the Foreign Ministry accused
also drive a wedge between Washington and the rest of Russia’s post-Soviet republics and stressed that these efforts were particularly aggressive in Ukraine last year.
introduced sanctions against Russia by the US and the EU because of its aggression against Ukraine include, among others, limit access to capital markets Russian state banks and companies from the oil sector and defense, the ban on arms exports, supplying advanced technologies and services for the oil sector and the ban on the export of certain dual-use items for military customers.

PAP / agkm

Russian Foreign Ministry: relations with the US are up cool – Polish Radio