00:56 05/10/2014 
The United States' sanctions against the Russian Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) have no practical sense, said the head of the FSKN, Viktor Ivanov on Russian TV-Center channel.
20:29 04/10/2014 
The Russian economy will not suffer significant losses after the decision of the US authorities to revoke trade preferences for our country, the deputy head of the Russia's Federation Council Committee on Economic Policy, Sergei Shatirov said.
20:05 04/10/2014 
The removal of the US GSP benefits from Russia is not an economic measure, but a political signal showing that Washington is unwilling to alleviate the conflict, Mikhail Yemelyanov, First Deputy of the Chairperson of the Russian State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, told RIA Novosti.
09:18 04/10/2014 
The United States will terminate Russia's designation as a beneficiary developing country, a status aimed at boosting a country's economy through reduced tariffs under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), a presidential proclamation from US President Barack Obama said on the White House official website.
03:21 04/10/2014 
Speech of the US Vice President Joe Biden can backfire on Washington, as it embarrasses the European Union members and demonstrates the US has intimidated them, Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, believes.
23:50 03/10/2014 
The European Union still needs to work on following an independent foreign policy course, which would not be influenced by the United States, EU-based journalist and author George Tzogopoulos told RIA Novosti Friday.
22:50 03/10/2014 
Sanctions are not an effective way to build relations with Russia, Riga Mayor Nil Ushakov told RIA Novosti in an interview on Friday.
21:43 03/10/2014 
Scottish ministers support EU anti-Russia sanctions, which they believe represent the member-states' uniform stance on the issue, Esther Hutcheson, a spokesperson for the Scottish Government's External Affairs Department told RIA Novosti Friday.
19:27 03/10/2014 
Trade organizations from the United States have started a campaign to weaken sanctions imposed by the country on Russia, the Hill reported Friday.
19:15 03/10/2014 
Western sanctions against Russia over Ukraine are a tool of political and economic blackmail used under pressure from the United States, Speaker of the lower house of Russian parliament, Sergei Naryshkin said Friday.
18:15 03/10/2014 
The European Union, France and the United Kingdom in particular, follows a US policy with regard to Ukraine, George Galloway, British MP for Bradford West and leader of the Respect Party, told RIA Novosti Friday.
15:50 03/10/2014 
Serbia has made it very clear that it will not join the European Union’s sanctions against Russia, Serbian Ambassador to Russia Slavenko Terzić said on Friday.
14:46 03/10/2014 
The United States and US President Barack Obama personally forced the European Union members to introduce sanctions against Russian over its stance on the Ukrainian crisis, US Vice President Joe Biden announced.
02:51 03/10/2014 
The United States recognize that sanctions imposed against Russia cause damage to the European countries, however, urge the EU leaders not to doubt their suitability, US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said.
02:02 03/10/2014 
US ready to lift some of the sanctions against Russia if the ceasefire agreement reached in Minsk is observed, US Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland stated.
22:41 02/10/2014 
The sanctions, imposed by the Western countries on Russia over the Ukrainian crisis resemble "legal lawlessness", Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov said on Thursday.
21:08 02/10/2014 
The EU repeatedly boasts of its commitment to the rule of law. In reality, the legal basis of the sanctions it has imposed on Russia is extremely dubious. However, past experience shows that even when the EU’s own courts declare sanctions illegal, the EU, despite its fulsome proclamations, simply carries on with them anyway.
18:20 02/10/2014 
Energy giant Chevron, the second-largest oil and gas company in the United States, does not plan to alter its scheduled activities in Russia amid Western sanctions, the company's spokesperson Sally Jones told RIA Novosti Thursday.
14:30 02/10/2014 
Washington will always try to hurt Moscow as hard as it can, though it will never help the international community to solve any conflict, including the one in Ukraine, British member of the PACE Mike Hancock said Thursday.
17:47 01/10/2014 
Britain should be proud of having imposed economic sanctions against Russia, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Wednesday at a conference held by the British Conservative Party.
12:12 01/10/2014 
US oil company ExxonMobil has suspended its operations with Russia’s state-owned oil giant Rosneft on nine out of 10 joint ventures following a new round of Western sanctions imposed on Moscow for its alleged involvement in the Ukrainian civil war in September.
23:48 30/09/2014 
There is still a possibility that the EU sanctions against Russia might be lifted earlier than the US ones, because they are more substantive in their nature, the Director General of Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Thanos Dokos told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
21:34 30/09/2014 
The European Union has failed again to break the vicious circle of sanction mentality by refusing to lift the current sanctions against Russia over Ukraine, Russia's Ambassador to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov said Tuesday.
18:23 30/09/2014 
One of the world's largest oilfield services providers, Schlumberger, is withdrawing American and European staff from Russia amid the Western-imposed sanctions against the country, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the situation.
15:56 30/09/2014 European Union ambassadors on Tuesday said they approve of keeping sanctions against Russia in place because of the situation in Ukraine, Reuters reported citing EU officials.
11:32 30/09/2014 
The Permanent Representatives Committee of the European Union (Coreper) is expected to meet Tuesday to review the implementation of the ceasefire regime in Ukraine.
18:21 29/09/2014 
US sanctions imposed against Russia will not have any impact on the joint Sakhalin-1 project between ExxonMobil and Rosneft, the US company's spokesman, Alan Jeffers, told RIA Novosti on Monday.
11:36 28/09/2014 
Russia does not feel isolated in light of sanctions and does plan to refuse to cooperate with the West, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview to Channel 5.
11:07 28/09/2014 
Moscow is not interested in continuing the sanction war with western countries, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview to Channel 5.
16:22 27/09/2014 
Russia needs to react differently to the challenges it is currently facing brought on by Western sanctions and "show some teeth" or face running the risk of appearing weak causing measures to escalate, foreign affairs analyst, Srdja Trifkovic told RIA Novosti.
11:24 27/09/2014 
Although the sanctions imposed against Russia by several countries have not yet affected work with its nationals, Rossotrudnichestvo activities have become complicated in some countries holding an "anti-Russian position," head of the organization, Konstantin Kosachev, said during the 12th Annual Session of the Rhodes Forum, "Dialogue of Civilizations," held September 25 to September 29.
22:14 26/09/2014 Moscow has not initiated the current standoff with the United Nations and will not succumb to its sanctions pressure, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday.
18:46 26/09/2014 
Czech President Milos Zeman urged during the 12th Rhodes Forum Friday to lift the sanctions imposed on Russia and to combine the efforts of developed countries to confront the real enemy - international terrorism and the dangers of the Islamic state (IS) plans.
13:08 26/09/2014 
The restriction of Russian banks' access to Western financial markets have a direct impact on Russian Railways, the company's president Vladimir Yakunin told RIA Novosti in an interview Friday.
12:54 26/09/2014 
By imposing sanctions, the United States is willing to erect invisible but still impassable barriers between Russia and Europe, Vladimir Yakunin, head of state-owned Russian Railways, said in an interview with RIA Novosti on Friday
12:51 26/09/2014 
The head of the state-run Russian Railways company, Vladimir Yakunin said in an interview with RIA Novosti on Friday that he keeps his savings in VTB, a Russian bank targeted by Western sanctions.
12:43 26/09/2014 
European railroad companies have continued to cooperate with Russian Railways amid sanctions and despite serious political pressure, the head of the Russia’s railroad monopoly Vladimir Yakunin told RIA Novosti.
00:01 26/09/2014 
Western sanctions against Russia over its alleged involvement in the Ukrainian crisis could be lifted only if the Minsk ceasefire agreement holds, the foreign ministers of G7 countries said in a joint statement Thursday.
22:50 25/09/2014 
Western sanctions against Russia will not affect collaboration between Russian and Norwegian oil and gas companies on the Norwegian continental shelf, Norway's energy minister Tord Lien told Aftenposten on Thursday.
18:40 25/09/2014 
European economic sanctions against Russia are dangerous for Europe's economy as they result in strengthening ties between Russia, China and India, Giovanni Toti, an adviser to Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told International Information Agency Rossiya Segodnya.
14:31 25/09/2014 
Four Russian ministries are working on a set of measures, including preferential access to existing fields, to support Russian oil companies that were sanctioned by the West over the Ukrainian crisis, Deputy Energy Minister Kirill Molodtsov told journalists Thursday.
08:22 25/09/2014 
Japan's decision to impose additional sanctions against Russia is poorly timed and was most likely driven by geopolitical considerations, Richard Wellings, Deputy Editorial Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), told RIA Novosti Thursday.
07:54 25/09/2014 
Japan could review or even cancel sanctions against Russia if Moscow takes evident action for the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, according to Japan's foreign ministry.
18:29 24/09/2014 
The united States President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that the country would lift the sanctions imposed on Russia in case it chooses a peaceful course in Ukraine.
17:49 24/09/2014 
Western economic sanctions have had no significant impact on the construction of exploration equipment in the Arctic; problems may occur only with the use of American equipment, the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (OSK) Alexei Rakhmanov said Wednesday.
17:03 24/09/2014 
The former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Necas said during a press conference Wednesday that hostility toward Russia must come to an end, as it remains West's strategic partner, local Echo24 media outlet has reported.
14:46 24/09/2014 
The sanctions, imposed by Western countries against Russia over the crisis in Ukraine are unlikely to be lifted until 2016, the Director of the Russian-based EurAsEC Institute Vladimir Lepekhin said on Wednesday at a conference at the International Information Agency Rossiya Segodnya.
13:25 24/09/2014 
Japan’s new sanctions against Russia will have a negative impact on the Tokyo’s geopolitical position and will send a wrong message to Japanese businesses, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
13:01 24/09/2014 
Japan has imposed sanctions on five major Russian banks, including the two biggest lenders Sberbank and VTB, a source in the country’s foreign ministry said Wednesday.
11:43 24/09/2014 
The Japanese government has imposed additional sanctions against Russia, the Kyodo news agency reported Wednesday.
20:42 23/09/2014 
The possible revision of EU sanctions against Russia will not be sufficient to change the investors' perception of the country, as long as the United States maintains its restrictions, Craig Botham, economist at British multinational asset management company Schroders, told RIA Novosti Tuesday.
16:41 23/09/2014 
Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) could have opened dozens of cases against Western companies, but decided not to in order to avoid confrontation, FAS chief Igor Artemyev said Tuesday.
11:47 23/09/2014 
A proposal to impose sanctions on Russian journalists for their coverage of events in Ukraine and Crimea is “absurd and inadmissible,” a senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday.
10:01 23/09/2014 
The European Union may start reconsidering economic sanctions against Moscow on September 30, Kommersant newspaper reported Tuesday citing the EU foreign policy chief's spokeswoman to Maya Kosyanchich.
06:55 23/09/2014 
Russian Ministry of Energy does not plan introducing any changes to Russia's energy strategy for the period of up to 2035 because of the western economic sanctions, Deputy Minister of Energy Kirill Molodtsov said on Tuesday.
05:45 23/09/2014 
Russia's Rosneft considers constructing the Far-Eastern Liquefied natural gas (LNG) Plant within the Sakhalin-1 project to be the "best option," the company's vice president Vlada Rusakova said on Tuesday.
05:27 23/09/2014 
Western economic sanctions over Moscow's alleged role in the Ukrainian crisis will not affect Russia's plans to increase the throughput of the pipeline East Siberia – Pacific Ocean to 80 million tonnes of oil per year by 2020, in order to increase the shipments of Russian oil to China, Deputy Minister of Energy Kirill Molodtsov said on Tuesday.
04:55 23/09/2014 
Russian companies are able to organize the production of the main technologies and equipment for the energy sector in the next three or four years, Deputy Minister of Energy Kirill Molodtsov said on Tuesday.
07:45 22/09/2014 
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has offered Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet on the sidelines of November APEC summit in Beijing, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshihide Suga said Monday.
22:20 21/09/2014 
Western sanctions could spur the development of Russian industry and the cooperation of Moscow with other nations, the head of the Kremlin administration Sergei Ivanov said in an interview published Sunday.
20:23 21/09/2014 
The latest economic sanctions against Russia, imposed by the West, look cynical due to the fact that the Minsk agreements on Ukraine crisis have led to a ceasefire, the Head of Russia's Presidential Administration told the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper in an interview released Sunday.
10:00 21/09/2014 
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida will attend the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York to meet with foreign ministers of the Group of 7 (G7) and discuss Japan's position with respect to sanctions against Russia, Japan's foreign ministry stated on Sunday.
07:59 21/09/2014 
The main task for Russia in the coming years is to establish cooperation with the Asian region, but the country does not intend to abandon the tradition of looking toward both the West and the East, Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev wrote on his Facebook webpage.
17:20 20/09/2014 
Though the international market conditions create a difficult situation for Russia, the country will survive, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday.
16:26 20/09/2014 
The West is unlikely to impose new sanctions against Russia, but it is doubtful that the existing ones will be lifted anytime soon, Russia's Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukayev said on Saturday.
14:44 19/09/2014 
Part of Russia’s Rostec state corporation, the Kalashnikov weapon maker, which has been targeted by Western sanctions will be forced to revise its export strategy following the measures, Rostec’s press service said Friday.
13:11 19/09/2014 
It will be hard for Russia to sustain economic growth under intensifying Western sanctions, the head of Russia's biggest bank Sberbank Herman Gref said Friday in a live interview with the Rossiya-24 television channel.
12:15 19/09/2014 
The Western sanctions imposed against the Russian oil industry have had no impact on the current decline in global oil prices, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told journalists Friday.
11:41 19/09/2014 The timing and scope of possible sanctions against Russia have not been determined yet, Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Fumio Kishida said at a press conference Friday.
23:32 18/09/2014 
European economic sanctions against Russia and Moscow's countermeasures have caused Slovakia's economic growth forecast for 2015 to decrease from 3 percent to 2.6 percent of the GDP, Slovakia's Finance Minister Peter Kazimir said Thursday.
21:56 18/09/2014 
Western economic sanctions are taking their toll on Russia and the European Union and will be canceled once the Ukrainian crisis is settled, French President Francois Hollande said Thursday at a press conference.
18:19 18/09/2014 
Russian scientists whose articles have been frequently published in western science magazines are concerned that their publications in the West may now be restricted, Alexander Bedritsky, a special presidential representative on climate issues, told RIA Novosti Thursday.
18:12 18/09/2014 
The self-proclaimed Kosovo Republic’s decision to introduce sanctions against Russia is not to be taken seriously, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council of Russia Mikhail Margelov told journalists on Thursday.
16:34 18/09/2014 
The "Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014" that the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee is voting on Thursday is a "witch's brew" of actions against Russia, which includes provisions relating to other countries, including Syria, Daniel Zubov from Rossiya Segodnia's Center for International Journalism and Research said Thursday.
14:45 18/09/2014 
By imposing economic restrictions on Russia, Western countries have ignored basic World Trade Organization norms and rejected the principle of fair and free competition, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
14:10 18/09/2014 
Introduction of anti-Russian sanctions by the partially recognized Balkan state of Kosovo is unsurprising, as its authorities are wholly dependent on the West, Leonid Slutsky, the head of the Russian parliamentary committee for Commonwealth of Independent State (CIS) affairs told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
11:49 18/09/2014 
As Canada hits Russia with a new package of sanctions targeting Russian military officials, defense companies and the largest state-owned bank, political analyst Prof. Michel Chossudovsky believes the country is simply copying the policy of the US towards Moscow and adds that it is mostly a move to curry favor in the polls with the country’s Ukrainian diaspora.
09:29 18/09/2014 Japan's government is going to announce additional sanctions against Russia over Ukraine on September 19, Kyodo news agency reported referring to the diplomatic Japanese sources.
07:15 18/09/2014 
The self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo joins the United States and the European Union and imposes sanctions against Russia over Moscow's alleged role in the Ukrainian internal conflict, as it is stated on the Kosovo Government's official website.
16:00 17/09/2014 
Western sanctions have not affected Russia's arms exports and will never lead to the collapse of the country's defense industry, a Kremlin aide said Wednesday.
09:03 17/09/2014 
Continuing sanction pressure on Russia will only deteriorate the Ukrainian crisis, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
22:36 16/09/2014 
The Canadian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday unveiled new sanctions against Russian military officials, defense companies and largest state-owned lender Sberbank.
16:52 16/09/2014 
Western sanctions are not affecting the Russian oil industry as a whole and nothing is preventing Russia from maintaining the current level of oil and gas production, Abdalla Salem el-Badri, Secretary General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) told RIA Novosti Tuesday.
11:21 16/09/2014 
Moscow sees no reason to initiate negotiations with the United States on the “illegal” sanctions imposed on Russia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Tuesday.
02:10 16/09/2014 
The United States could withdraw the latest sanctions imposed on Russia last week, if the Minsk ceasefire agreement is observed in Ukraine, the US State Department Spokesperson Marie Harf told reporters Monday.
18:50 15/09/2014 
JSC Russian Space Systems (RSS) is continuing to produce equipment for GLONASS satellites, despite difficulties with shipments of foreign electronics, caused by the Western economic sanctions, RSS Director General Andrei Tyulin told journalists on Monday.
11:23 15/09/2014 
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Monday that Western partners tested Russia for durability by imposing sanctions, and the country's response should not be based on simple solutions that undermine its democratic development.
10:35 15/09/2014 
Western sanctions against Russia are unlikely to affect Russia's oil and gas industry and may even open up new opportunities for closer cooperation with its Asian partners and new projects for the country's oil companies, according to industry insiders.
01:46 15/09/2014 
Western sanctions will not affect Russian oil company Gazprom Neft's cooperation with foreign contractors on shale oil projects, said Vadim Yakovlev, deputy chairman of the Management Board and first deputy CEO.
01:04 15/09/2014 Sectoral sanctions imposed on Russia by the European Union and the United States fail to inflict a severe damage on Gazprom Neft, according to Vadim Yakovlev, deputy chairman of the Management Board and first deputy CEO.
17:25 14/09/2014 
German Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Economy and Energy, Sigmar Gabriel, believes that good relations with Russia are necessary for Europe, he stated in an interview with the German newspaper Bild on Sunday.
13:48 14/09/2014 
Russia will not leave new Western economic sanctions without a response, but the reaction needs to be measured and aimed at protecting national economic interests, the Chairperson of the Russian Council of the Federation Valentina Matviyenko told journalists on Sunday.
00:37 14/09/2014 
The United States currently pursue a tougher policy towards Russia than during the Cold War to demonstrate that it is still the world leader, a senior Russian lawmaker said.
23:57 13/09/2014 
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has criticized the anti-Russian sanctions, imposed by the European Union and the United States this week, speaking at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Social Democratic Party, which is leading the country's ruling three-party coalition, Novinky magazine reported Saturday.
14:22 13/09/2014 
The EU sanctions against Russia are a step in the wrong direction, Peter Gauweiler, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Foreign cultural and educational policies of the German Bundestag, told Bild Saturday.
12:00 13/09/2014 
The new sanctions announced by Washington and Europe don’t seem to make much sense. I would be surprised if Russian oil and military industries were dependent on European capital markets in a meaningful way. The Russian companies should be able to secure adequate financing from Russian Banks or from the Russian government. If foreign loans are needed, Russia can borrow from China.
11:22 13/09/2014 
The United States and the European Union expected to bring Russia to negotiating table by imposing new sanctions, but their move will only lead to Moscow introducing countermeasures and create a strained environment for future talks on lifting sanctions and establishing peace in Ukraine, William Pomeranz, the Deputy Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. told RIA Novosti on Saturday.
09:59 13/09/2014 
New sanctions targeting Russia could have a negative impact on the country’s business environment and ties with the United States, Tom Thomson, the owner and founder of international business and strategic communications consultancy T.Thomson & Associates, told RIA Novosti Saturday.
08:48 13/09/2014 
The European and American sanctions regime will have no effect on Russian policies in neighboring Ukraine as Russian businesses are capable of adjusting to them, Bryan Early, director of the Project on International Security, Commerce and Economic Statecraft at New York State University at Albany, told RIA Novosti Saturday.