error Obama: Russia called Obama's decision to extend the sanctions - a gesture of despair

The expectation is that with the help of anti-Russian US sanctions will be able to change the policy of Moscow failed, said the first deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Michael Emelyanov. This he told Tass. So the deputy responded to the decision by President Barack Obama to extend sanctions against Russia for a year.

"This is an act of desperation on the part of Barack Obama. Other ways of influencing the Russian American president did not invent "- said Emelyanov.

 

In addition, he spoke about the extremely low effect on US and European sanctions against Russia. At the same time, said the deputy, "the Russian kontrsanktsii caused very serious damage, in particular, agriculture in Europe", and for the Russian producers, they were helpful. "Obama gives us more time to close their markets to US goods and actively engage in import substitution," - he said.

 

On the night of March 4, on the site of the White House published a statement on Barack Obama's decision to extend the sanctions against Russia for a year.
Since March 2014 the United States and other countries several times imposed sanctions against Russia. They touched on a number of Russian companies, mainly operating in the energy, financial, and defense sectors. In addition, personal sanctions were imposed against the individual citizens of Russia. In response, Russia has restricted imports of certain agricultural products from countries that have imposed sanctions against it: the United States, EU countries, Canada, Australia and Norway. Moscow was also blacklisted Europeans and Americans who are denied entry to the territory of Russia.