Ponomarev from Kyiv advises the United States on how to hit Russia harder

The West must change its sanctions approach to Russia. This was stated at a briefing in Kyiv by Ilya Ponomarev, the only State Duma deputy who voted against the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation.

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According to him, America and Europe do not need to introduce economic restrictions, but to freeze the accounts of all Russian government employees and ban them from entering Europe.

“I would make a prototype of future lustration in Russia and would say that all people who are employees of government bodies in Russia are subject to a ban, and their assets in the West should be arrested. Because every person, down to the last municipal employee in the village, is responsible for the existence of this regime - he participates in elections and so on, so there is a share of responsibility for everyone,” Ponomarev said.