NEW DELHI. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The economic sanctions imposed by the United States against Russia are an attempt to assuage the guilt for the Ukraine events, State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin has said.
"The so-called economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and a number of satellite countries are, to a degree, an attempt to assuage their guilt for the events which, regretfully, have been happening in Ukraine and the crisis this country has been going through," Naryshkin said at a roundtable dedicated to Russian-Indian cooperation in the BRICS Group.
"The culpability of the United States of America for these events is significant and apparent to the entire world," he said.
Naryshkin once again described the anti-Russian U.S. sanctions as "economic blackmail which had nothing to do with norms of the law."