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Sat, 04 Jul, 2015 01:43:28 AM Russian parliament discusses possible sanctions on Finland FTimes- STT Report, July 4  Russia's State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin. File Photo AFP-Lehtikuva. The lower house of the Russian parliament on Friday discussed the possibility of imposing economic sanctions on Finland following denial of short-term waiver of travel ban on some Russian delegates.
The delegates, who are in the EU travel list ban were the members of Russian team scheduled to attend the forthcoming summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) beginning in Helsinki on Sunday.
The travel ban lift would have enabled six of the 15-member delegate on the EU travel ban list including the Speaker of the State Duma, Sergei Naryshkin.
According to a Russian news agency Ria Novosti report on Friday, the chair of the State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee, Aleksei Pushkov, referred to a law which makes it possible for Russia to impose economic sanctions on hostile countries.
“I won't really rule out the application of this law neither in this (Finland's) situation," Pushkov was quoted by Ria Novosti as saying.
The issue was to be explored together with the executive authority, he stressed.
The lower house of the Russian legislature, the State Duma, on Friday condemned Finland's decision of refusal entry visa to the six Russians on the EU travel ban to attend the OSCE meeting.
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday told Russian news agency Tass that Finland should not have obliged to its commitments as the host country. Lavrov also termed Finland's gesture rude.
Russia could impose restrictions on the timber trade with Finland following the decision to refuse the Russian delegate on the EU travel ban entry visa, said the Chair of the Russian Security council Nikolai Patrushev as reported by international news agency Reuters on Friday.
"Can we introduce these restrictions? Yes we can," Patrushev said.
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