Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered today to consider expanding the list of countries that will be subject to Russian countersanctions.
He stated that the government can turn to President Vladimir Putin with a request to expand the list of countries that are subject to a food embargo, Russian media reports.
According to him, this may affect several countries that supported sanctions against Russia, but which were not subject to Russian counter-sanctions.
Last week, six European countries - Montenegro, Albania, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Ukraine - joined the extension of EU sanctions against Russia.
The press secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov, expressed his belief that Russian President Vladimir Putin will support Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's proposal to expand the list of countries that will be subject to a food embargo.
"I can assume with great certainty that the basic principle here is the principle of reciprocity," Peskov told reporters when asked if the head of state would support the government's request to expand the list of countries to which retaliatory measures will apply.
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