The Governmentof the Russian Federation, in accordance with the decree of President Putin, is preparing a list of "unfriendly countries", which, except for the United States, may include the Czech Republic, Poland, the Baltic States and Ukraine.
This was reported by the Russian edition of Izvestia.
According to Izvestia, in accordance with the decree published by the Kremlin, Putin ordered the government to make a list of foreign countries "committing unfriendly actions" toward the Russian Federation, Russian citizens or legal entities.
Russia will put a cap on the number of locally hired employees and even completely ban such employment for diplomatic missions and representative offices of state bodies and institutions of the blacklisted countries.
The U.S. is going to be on the top of the list. Poland, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, as well as the United Kingdom, Canada, Ukraine and Australiamay be on this list as well.
This list has not yet been finally approved, and the measures that Russia will take for "unfriendly countries" are also being clarified.