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Russia criticized the European Union on Monday for expanding sanctions over the Ukraine crisis and urged the EU to respect self-rule votes in two eastern Ukrainian provinces. \"By continuing its faulty, anti-Russian sanctions logic, the European Union undermines trust in itself as a partner and casts doubt on its claim to an objective role in supporting a resolution of Ukraine's internal conflict,\" the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The EU imposed sanctions on two Crimean companies and 13 people on Monday in response to Moscow's annexation of the region and its support for Russian-speaking separatists. Russia accuses the EU of helping the interim Ukrainian government come to power in what Moscow says was a coup d'état in February, when then-President Viktor Yanukovich fled after three months of protests over his decision to spurn an EU trade pact and turn to Moscow.
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