State Duma accuses U.S. of backsliding into Cold War
MOSCOW. Dec 19 (Interfax) - The White House's assurances that it has no intention to impose fresh sanctions on Russia after U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Ukraine Freedom Support Act do not change the aggressive nature of the document, the State Duma has said.
"It looks like the United States has actually gone on the warpath and the world is sliding back to the early 1980s, the darkest Cold War era," United Russia faction first deputy head, State Duma Defense Committee member Franz Klintsevich told Interfax on Friday.
By signing the law on new sanctions against Russia "Obama has crossed the Rubicon. A law is not a decree: it cannot be repealed at the stroke of a pen," he said.
U.S. allegations that they are not going to impose fresh sanctions on Russia for now change nothing, Klintsevich remarked. "Moreover, making a threat has a stronger effect than [a threat] carried out," the parliamentary majority representative stated.
"Anyway, they cannot break Russia. We will continue to defend our interests," the deputy said.
