U.S. imposes sanctions against two Russian companies
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced new licensing and export restrictions against two Russian companies that work in the military-industrial sector: missile designer Novator and research and production center Titan-Barricade, reports Radio Svoboda.
According to the agency’s December 19 announcement, these companies are responsible for the production of cruise missiles which are banned by the 1987 arms control treaty between the USSR and the USA (on the elimination of small and medium-range missiles).
“These companies produce ground-based cruise missiles for the Russian Ministry of Defense with a flight range prohibited under the treaty on medium- and short-range missiles,” the report said.
It was noted that there are sufficient grounds to believe that the sanctioned companies “were involved in actions that are contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States.”
Earlier, the media reported that a new package of anti-Russian sanctions, which will be adopted by the United States in February 2018, will be supplemented with a closed list of Russian citizens, contact with which is discouraged for American partners in Europe.