“The United States thereby treading its feet on free and fair competition and unhindered use of sanctions to advance its own economic interests,” the committee’s chairman Oliver Hermes cited in the document.

Earlier, the chairman of the Federation Council committee on international affairs, Konstantin Kosachev, commented on US actions regarding Nord Stream 2. As the senator noted in an interview with the FAN, the situation is serious and regrettable, but above all, it puts the American allies in NATO in an extremely awkward position.