30 Jun 2015 11:10

MP Pushkov proposes to start mutual cancellation of sanctions between West and Russia on parlamentarian level

MOSCOW. June 30 (Interfax) - It is possible to overcome the sanctions deadlock if we start lifting the restrictions on the level of parliamentarians, the chairman of the Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee, Alexei Pushkov, has said.

"We should begin emerging from this sanctions deadlock by first cancelling the restrictions as a mutual step with regard to parliamentarians," he said in the State Duma on Tuesday.