: :inin Kyiv (EET)

EU Extends Sanctions Against Russia for 6 Months


European Union foreign ministers formally agreed Monday to extend economic sanctions against Russia for an additional six months in response to the country’s role in neighboring Ukraine.

The move came during a meeting of the 28-member bloc’s foreign ministers in Luxembourg. EU envoys had preliminarily approved the measure last week.

The sanctions target Russia’s energy, defense and financial sectors and have been in place since July 2014, some four months after Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. They will now run through January 31, 2016.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said last week that Russia would respond “on the principle of reciprocity” after …read more

Source: Voice of America

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