New EU sanctions and the United States against Moscow, the Kremlin threatens to replicate

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The twenty-eight member states of the European Union (EU) found, Thursday, Sept. 11, an agreement that tougher economic sanctions against Russia come into force on Friday. Six major Russian defense companies and energy - including oil companies Rosneft and Transneft and oil arm Gazprom - are thus restricting their access to capital markets.
The European Union has also decided to add twenty to four hundred names to the Russian and Ukrainian pro-Russian figures objects of targeted sanctions, asset freezes and visa bans. President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy said that the EU could lift its sanctions on the assessment to be made by the end of September on the progress of the peace plan in Ukraine.

These retaliatory measures taken to keep the pressure on Moscow despite a primer relaxing in eastern Ukraine, had been formally adopted Monday night but states struggled to agree on the timing of their entry into force.