Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a verdict on countermeasures against countries that expresses “unfriendly” movements towards Russia as a political disorder worsens between Moscow and several European states.
Putin signed the decree just yesterday to restrict the number of local staff operational at foreign political assignments and other organizations, and gave work to the government with providing a names of “unfriendly” foreign countries that would be in focus to the limitations.
The law, issued on the Kremlin website, allows Moscow to limit or even ban work contracts with “state bodies and state institutions of foreign states committing unfriendly acts against the Russian Federation.”
“Labor contracts with individuals in excess of the number set by the government that were signed before the commencement day of this decree are to be terminated,” the document said, adding that the restrictions “are not applicable to nationals of unfriendly states arriving from such states as employees of diplomatic missions, consular institutions and offices of government institutions of corresponding unfriendly foreign states.”
The verdict, as the website stated, comes into effect from the day of its official issuance and will be legal until these countermeasures are negated.
