Russian lawmaker condemns US, British sanctions as unfair method of competition

Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Russian State Duma Leonid Slutsky stressed The United States and the United Kingdom use unfair methods of competition, imposing sanctions on Russian and Belarusian companies,

“The West keeps trying to contain Russia and its closest allies,” he pointed out, adding that the US Department of State had failed to provide evidence against the three Russian companies sanctioned earlier for allegedly violating a US law restricting weapons trade with Iran, North Korea and Syria, according to TASS.

“The United Kingdom keeps pace [with the US]. London has introduced a package of economic, trade and aviation sanctions on the Belarusian government, citing alleged human rights violations,” Slutsky went on to say.

The senior Russian lawmaker asserted that Moscow and Minsk will respond to these steps,”

The US Department of State said on Monday that Russia’s Pulsar Research and Production Enterprise, the Charter Green Light Moscow and Asia-Invest companies had been sanctioned. Washington also slapped sanctions on several Belarusian companies. The UK, in turn, “imposed a package of trade, financial and aviation sanctions on Belarus, in response to the continued undermining of democracy and human rights violations by the Lukashenko regime.”

 Inas Abdulkareem