Russia has condemned the new round of sanctions imposed on the country by the United States, calling the move illegitimate and uncivilized and saying restrictions on high-tech exports from the US mark a return to the Cold War. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the unilateral extraterritorial sanctions are illegitimate by nature and violate international law. Russia earlier said that it would give a painful response to the new Western sanctions after the US and the European Union imposed new sanctions on the country over the crisis in Ukraine. The White House said that seven Russian officials and 17 firms linked to President Vladimir Putin have been added to the sanctions list. The EU, in a similar move, imposed sanctions on 15 Russian and Ukrainian individuals.
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