Moscow has been quick to shrug off the coordinated sanctions against its two biggest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil.

"Counterproductive" is how the Russian Foreign Ministry described the measures .

It warned the Trump administration that it would fail and accused the EU of being unable to accept that its sanctions don't work.

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It's a similar response in the papers. "Couldn't you have come up with something better?" asks the Russian tabloid, Komsomolskaya Pravda.

The broadsheet Izvestia newspaper quotes two American "political scientists" who predict the sanctions will backfire and hurt Europe instead.

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