© RIA Novosti / Vladimir Fedorenk
Russia might take reciprocal action against US companies as soon as it finds suitable replacements in other countries, several lawmakers have said.
The issue of mirror sanctions is often being raised in parliament, MP Vadim Dengin told the mass circulation daily
Izvestia. In particular, Russia might impose limits on companies owned by US citizens or affiliated with US-owned corporations. "If the United States is not afraid to lose business contacts with us by introducing similar sanctions, we should have already given full support to a domestic producer," Dengin said.
A member of the Lower House committee for the financial markets, Boris Kashin, emphasized that sanctions against US companies would only be imposed if the United States first introduced such measures against Russia. The lawmaker also said that it was important if Russia could do without certain services and products.
"Not all of these [US-made] goods can be produced in Russia or replaced with imports from other countries. At present we cannot do without American computers, but if we discover an alternate, for example, a China-made one,we can include the US products in the possible sanctions list," Kashin said.
Comment: This comes on the heels of another rather cringe-worthy moment yesterday, March 26th 2014, when a room full of international journalists and European diplomats responded to Obama's resounding reaffirmation of the USA's apocryphal principles of "privacy, rule of law and individual rights", with....well...complete silence.
Obama also claimed today that "Russia is completely isolated".
In his 'reality-creating' reality, perhaps.
In the real world, it's the United States that is fast becoming isolated as the world collectively watches its implosion.
The reason why no one applauded was because Obama said that America's values were "PRIVACY" (NSA wiretapping of everyone), "RULE OF LAW" (illegal US invasion and occupation of Iraq, and drone attacks in Yemen, Pakistan and elsewhere), "INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS" (meaning the ones the PATRIOT act took away).
That's something to laugh at, not applaud. In fact, the only reason his nonsense wasn't met with raucous laughter was probably because the audience's collective jaw was sitting on the floor, making it hard to laugh.