U.S. sanctions aimed at changing power, Russian envoy says

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A senior Russian diplomat accused the United States on Monday of trying to bring down President Vladimir Putin with the sanctions it has imposed on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told parliamentary deputies that ties between Moscow and Washington were in a very deep chill and were likely to remain so if the sanctions remained for a long time. "It is hardly a secret that the goal of the sanctions is to create social and economic conditions to carry out a change of power in Russia," Sergei Ryabkov told a hearing in the lower house. ...




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