“This request to the American government is politically motivated with a clear element of interference in the internal affairs of the Russian Federation,” Klintsevich said.
In his opinion, the initiative is populist in nature and is unlikely to be supported.
Earlier it was reported that a group of US senators, led by Marco Rubio and Ben Cardin, appealed to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin with a request to impose sanctions against Russia for "prosecuting the opposition."
Russian political scientist, human rights activist, director of the International Institute of the Newest States, Alexei Martynov, in an interview with Nation News, praised the expansion of the US sanctions list against Russia.