Russia hit back sanctions applied Western countries concerning annexation carried him to the territory of Ukraine , the Crimean peninsula .
This is expressed by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday , without mentioning the names of the officials of the United States or the European Union sanctioned .
United States and the European Union have issued a witness in the form of denial of visas and freeze the assets of a number of officials and members of the Russian parliament and the people closest Russian President , Vladimir Putin , to punish Moscow .
Sanctions imposed on the so-called Western countries as the Crimean Peninsula takeover illegally .
" Of course , such actions can not be left without a response," said a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry , Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement .
" The Russian side has taken measures in response . " He did not mention one in particular of those affected by the sanctions .
RIA news agency quoted a top official as saying that those who enter in the black list of the new Moscow will know that they get a penalty that " when they ( try to ) enter the Russian border " .
Some of the 11 officials and U.S. lawmakers who are in the initial list and the Russian sanctions announced last week , treating it with the sanction of the Russian ridicule .
Senator John McCian said that " in the Siberian spring break is over " for him .
Crimean residents have decided to secede from Ukraine and join Russia through a vote held on May 16.
Pendapatdiang poll gap invalid by Western countries , who say that the referendum had violated the constitution of Ukraine and took place only after Russian troops took control of the Black Sea peninsula .
United States and the European Union are worried that Putin intends to dominate other regions in eastern and southern Ukraine .
They warned that sanctions would weaken the broader economy all sectors of Russia if Moscow aggravating the crisis .
Russia issued the initial sanctions include the name of McCain and 10 other officials and members of parliament .
Russia has not mentioned the names of officials from the European Union , Canada or Australia are included in the list of sanctions - which is applied in retaliation for similar measures against Russia .
After a loose grip on Ukraine , Vladimir Putin turned his face to the rulers of Central Asia , especially Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev to strengthen the Eurasian Union countries of the former Soviet Union .
President of the Russian annexation of the Crimea quickly memelesatkan popularity in the country but his dream to bring Ukraine closer to the alliance yuang he wakes for former Soviet countries that have been destroyed .
" After losing the Ukraine , Central Asia became the target of Moscow for the integration plan , " said Lilit Gevorgyan , analyst at IHS Global Insight told Reuters .
Kazakhstan is one of two countries of the former Soviet Union , in addition to Belarus , who joined the union with Russia .
This year, these countries signed the document in the formation of the Eurasian Economic Union , which is a regional bloc of former Soviet countries which aim to balance the European Union .
But four former Soviet states in Central Asia seems to be another draw closer to Moscow where Russia trying to grab back its influence in the region that has been embedded during the 19th and 20th centuries .
Central Asian countries which covers an area of Western Europe stretching from the Caspian Sea to China . They respond to the crisis in Ukraine with silence and commented carefully to avoid confrontation with Moscow .
Putin distrust towards Western -style politics resonate in Kazakhstan , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are the rulers grip . Only Kyrgyzstan is stepping into a parliamentary democracy .
Kazakhstan is the richest of the five Central Asian countries and the most intimate relationship with Russia and has a large population of ethnic Russians .
Nazarbayev told Putin March 10 and that he understands about the Crimea Moscow establishment . He said that the Eurasian Economic Union project continues.
" Integration makes us shed the constraints of charges and increase competitiveness . Therefore , we had to build a purely pragmatic interests of our country , modernize the economy and improve the scale of our GDP , " he said on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague .
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But he insisted that his country had no desire back under Moscow's rule . " Throughout our political independence note , this sacred pact , and Kazakhstan will not give up its sovereignty to anyone , " he said .
This sentence is clearly intended to soothe fellow countrymen in the Muslim-majority country .
"People mostly ethnic Kazakh and Kazakh see events in Ukraine as a direct threat to its territorial integrity and Kazakhstan , " said Aidos Sarym , a political analyst in Almaty , Kazakhstan .
Although Kazakhstan announce its independence from the Soviet Union over 22 years ago , produces oil and natural gas , as well as the middle of trying to enter the World Trade Organization , its economy is strongly linked to Moscow .
" In our region , we have Kazakhstan , we have Chinese and we got along the 7,000 kilometer border with Russia , so naturally you will not find a man who dared to say no to working with Russia . Question is how to do it and in what matter , " said Sarym .
Nazarbayev , a former steel mill worker aged 73 years , for more than two decades menyetit what he calls " foreign policy multivektor " , maneuvering between Russia , China and the West to maintain the independence of his country . He described the Eurasian Union similar to the European Union , not the new Russian empire .
" It's like working EU , where the European Commission to overcome the problems of customs , regulate trade , tariff , transportation, oil and gas , electricity , railways and highways , " Nazarbayev said in The Hague . " The final decision will be made with the approval of the three countries . "
There was no " fifth column "
March 1 of Putin's declaration on the right of Russia to invade neighboring countries to protect ethnic Russians would be more concerned about Kazakhstan 20 years ago .
When independence was proclaimed in 1991 , the ethnic Kazakh population controls 40 percent of Kazakhstan , is almost the same as ethnic Russians .
But now , thanks to the emigration of ethnic Russians and the high birth rate of ethnic Kazakh , Russian ethnicity is now only 22 percent of the total population , while about 65 percent Kazakhs .
Back to Moscow , some Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky led takeover still continue to call northern Kazakhstan that includes historic towns such as Petropavlovsk in Russia track the Trans-Siberian railway .
But the strong grip of power Nazarbayev has played down the seeds of ethnic separatism Russia as Russia in the Crimean Unity Party which took power after armed men occupied the parliament building last February .
Occasional outbreaks have occurred as ethnic tensions in the 1990s are long forgotten . Nazarbayev , a former member of the Soviet politburo , when it delivered a speech to both Kazakh and Russian .
" ( Descendants ) of Russia in Kazakhstan is very different from the Russians in the Crimea who never considered himself the people of Ukraine , " said political analyst Alexander Knyazev . " Local people associate them with the Russians this country . Those who think otherwise have gone . "
A diplomatic cable the U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan in 2010 also mentions no pro - Russian separatist threat in Kazakhstan .
" Ethnic Russians in Kazakhstan is sometimes considered himself the fifth column ( latent strength ) in support of the Russian Federation . Post ( U.S. Embassy ) considers this assessment is not very accurate , " reads the leaked diplomatic cables WikiLeaks .
Chinese thirst
Neighbors Kazakhstan in Central Asia such as Tajikistan poorer and Kyrgzstan actually want to also join the Eurasian Union , but because perekonominya difficult then they need a few years before joining the Eurasian Economic Union .
However, they are clearly in the orbit of Moscow . When US-led forces prepare to withdraw troops from Afghanistan , Russia secured a long-term military presence in both countries after bartered with large aid package including debt relief , better treatment for both countries of origin of foreign workers , and the supply of weapons and fuel .
Uzbekistan is Central Asia most-populated country with 30 million people , has invited Russian energy companies to help exploit hydrocarbon reserves are promising but undeveloped .
President Islam Karimov ( 76 ) which has been in power since the Soviet era into a wider spotlight Western countries because of its reputation as one of the most repressive in the world .
He was willing to cooperate with NATO countries in terms of security , but it seems to be approaching back to Moscow after the Western alliance out of Afghanistan this year .
In Central Asia , Putin 's main competitor for influence is not the West , but China .
Turkmenistan is one of the most isolated countries in the world and ruled that President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov dikultus - individukan , has the fourth largest natural gas reserves in the world .
The country is still dependent on Soviet -era pipelines through Russia for its natural gas exports , but a new gas pipeline that was completed in 2009, making Beijing replacing Moscow as the largest buyer of Turkmen gas .
Last year , the President of China Xi Jinping joined inaugurate the second largest natural gas field in the world in Galkynysh , Turkmenistan .
China's thirst for energy , not the wrath of the West , is the biggest obstacle Moscow built another empire in Asia , according to Reuters .
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