MOSCOW – New US legislation authorising sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine crisis could undermine relations between Moscow and Washington for a long time, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Friday.In a phone call with US Secretary of State John Kerry, Lavrov said that the new legislation “threatening new sanctions against Russia could undermine the possibility of normal cooperation between our countries for a long time,” said a foreign ministry statement.President Barack Obama on Thursday signed a law giving him the authority to impose new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine. He said he was not about …read more
Source: AsiaOne
