Parliament Building in London, UKLONDON, Feb 28 Britain imposed sanctions against VEB, Sovcombank and Otkritie Bank, follows from the published document. It is reported that all three financial institutions will have their assets frozen. imposing sanctions, they said in DamascusThe reason for imposing sanctions was that all three banks are of strategic importance to Russia, they benefit from the government and provide support to it. The Russian authorities had previously begun retaliatory steps against the imposed Western sanctions. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, that the Russian Federation has been systematically preparing for quite a long time for possible sanctions, including the most severe ones that Russia is facing now. And answering the question whether there will be a mirror response to sanctions, he said that Russia's responses will be lined up mainly in terms of the expediency and interests of the country. >Putin introduced special economic measures against the United StatesPosted: V. Lavrentiev
