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Russia warns US it is 'playing with fire' with sanctions

<span style="color: #222222;">Moscow today said Washington's latest raft of anti-Russian sanctions that also target China undermined global stability, warning the United States against playing with fire. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said in a statement that it would be good for America to remember there is such a concept as global stability which they are thoughtlessly undermining by whipping up tensions in Russian-American ties. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He has said Moscow recommends that Washington's operators of the sanctions machine at least superficially acquaint themselves with Russian history to stop going round in circles. Ryabkov reiterated that none of the rounds of sanctions had managed to force Russia to change its course so far.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Yesterday, the United States expanded its sanctions war against Russia to China, for the first time announcing punitive measures against a Chinese military organisation for buying Russian fighter jets and missiles. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The State Department also announced it was placing 33 Russian intelligence and military-linked actors on its sanctions blacklist.</span><br />''  

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