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Reuters: Kremlin says worried by pressure on Russian business in Ukraine

By Reuters.

Published March 28, 2017 at 2:13 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R), accompanied by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (C) and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov (L), attends a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, on March 24, 2016.

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Kremlin is extremely worried by pressure put in Ukraine on the Russian business, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on March 28.

Kyiv has recently imposed sanctions on Sberbank and other Russian state-owned banks operating in Ukraine as part of a broader flare-up in tensions linked to separatist regions of eastern Ukraine which are backed by Russia.