Former British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind says Russia’s entry ban on 89 European politicians and military leaders shows Western sanctions imposed on Moscow for its March 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula are working.
Rifkind told British radio Sunday that Russian officials “would not have reacted unless they felt very sore at what happened.”
Rifkind spoke a day after the European Union issued a statement saying it considers the new ban, which was disclosed last week, as “totally arbitrary and unjustified in the absence of further clarification.”
The Russian list includes scores of European lawmakers and heads of government who last year backed …read more
Source: Voice of America
