MOSCOW, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- The "Kremlin report" newly released by the United States reflects Washington's "political paranoia" which yields no result but undermines prospects of dialogue between the two countries, members of the Russian parliament said Tuesday.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday published a list of 114 Russian politicians and 96 business leaders widely seen as potential targets for new sanctions, although the document specifies that it should not be interpreted as a sanction list.
Leonid Slutsky, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Russian State Duma (the lower house of parliament), said that the report practically calls members of the entire Russian administration adversaries of the United States, which further complicates Russia-U.S. relations.
"The release of the 'Kremlin list', which includes practically the entire Russian administration and heads of leading state corporations, undermines the possibility of further dialogue, which is already at its lowest," Slutsky said.
"This will actually last for a long while. It appears that political paranoia is rather hard to cure especially if the patient denies his disease and refuses treatment," said Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Russian Federation Council (the upper house of parliament).
He warned that bilateral relations between Russia and the United States will never go back onto the right track as long as "the maniacal idea of 'U.S. exceptionalism' stays in office in Washington."
On Monday, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow will analyze the report and the actions following the report to ensure its interests and the interests of related Russian companies.
