WASHINGTON, February 13. /TASS/. The new US administration intends to react to violations of human rights, which, according to Washington, take place in Russia, US Department of State Spokesperson Ned Price said at a briefing for reporters on Friday.
He was responding to a question about possible sanctions against Moscow over the alleged violations of human rights.
"We are also looking very closely at the human rights abuses that I referred to, and I would suspect that you will hear us say more about the appropriate policy responses to this litany of abuses and offenses that we have seen emanate from Moscow and take place within Russian territory," he said. The diplomat did not specify what the reaction of the American administration might be.
"And we’ll continue to do so, whether it’s in Russia or elsewhere around the world, when universal rights, when human rights come under threat from regimes opposed to these universal values and universal principles," he added.
Price recalled that the US administration is conducting a review of Russian actions. Part of the review has been tasked by President Joe Biden to the Director of National Intelligence, he said.
"Analysts are now looking at a range of malign activities that the Russians have undertaken or reportedly undertaken in recent years, from election interference to Solar Winds breach to reported bounties on the heads of American soldiers in Afghanistan to the use of a chemical weapon in the case of Mr. Navalny," he said.
Moscow has repeatedly stated that Washington is politicizing the sphere of human rights in Russia.