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A worker near the building of the US Consulate in Moscow
A worker near the building of the US Consulate in Moscow
"We have said it before and we are saying now that there can be only one political explanation for everything that is going on and this is Washington's desire to pressure Russia. Therefore, in this situation we are not pursuing exact mirror-like reciprocity and we will not act in a way that could harm ourselves," Sergey Ryabkov said in an interview published on Monday in Izvestia daily. He was answering a question about plans to respond to the Kremlin List's release by the US Treasury Department.
"We will answer when and if our president and other senior officials estimate the complexity of factors and come to the conclusion that the moment has come," he added.
Comment: It's worth noting that corruption in this index is defined by the avoidance of taxes, which is relatively tame compared to the damage caused by other other forms of corruption. If corrupt power was measured on the global chess board, the United States would blow all competition out of the water.