imageMOSCOW: Moscow on Tuesday condemned a decision by Standard and Poor's to strip sanctions-hit Russia of its investment-grade rating, saying the downgrade to "junk" status had been ordered by the United States.

"I personally have no doubt that this was done not even on the prompting but on direct orders from Washington," Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Nebenzya was quoted by the state RIA Novosti news agency as saying.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2015

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