“This situation (in relations between Russia and the United States. - RT) negatively affects the economic cooperation between our two countries. I stress that the sanctions pressure on Russia cannot give positive results. However, we are not heard yet. The administration constantly says that they are going to increase the restriction, ”RIA Novosti quotes Antonova.
At the same time, he noted that “with respect to the USSR ... sanctions throughout the 20th century were announced dozens of times”.
“However, our opponents did not achieve a change in the foreign policy of our state,” the ambassador said.
Earlier, the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergei Ryabkov, said that in the United States they fabricated a pretext for the introduction of new anti-Russian sanctions. According to him, the US authorities deliberately continue the policy of intimidating their own and the world community by “Russian hackers and bloggers.”