Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev described Western sanctions imposed on family members of Russian officials in connection with the events in Ukraine as a “double violation of the law”, pointing out that “in Russia there is the concept of “absolute responsibility”. law, when you take responsibility without proof of fault.”

And he said in a statement on social networks that “there is a double lawlessness. Now, according to their model, for alleged violations invented by the West, not only participants in political events on the part of statesmen or representatives are responsible, but also for members of their families, who cannot in any way relate to their relatives.

Medvedev sarcastically stated: “The West may be inclined to include other ‘progressive’ provisions in family law, from the Code of Hammurabi to the principles of the Italian mafia, and may even resort to reviving extrajudicial executions in the American heritage and the practice of the racist Ku Klux Klan” .

This came after the European Union published on Friday the text of the sixth package of sanctions against Russia and a list of personal sanctions, which included, in particular, Tatyana Navka, the wife of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, as well as his son and daughter. .