A Russian lawmaker has lashed out at a U.S. sanction on several Russian arms export companies, branding it "unfair," Russia's Ekho Moskvy radio reported on Friday.

"The American partners are once again acting superficially and with short sight," Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the international affairs committee of the parliament, told the station.

Kosachev's condemnation came in response to a two-year sanction slapped earlier this week by the Bush administration on some Russian export companies, which are accused of exporting weapons to Syria, Iran and Venezuela.

"The export control in Russia has been established in the most rigorous way. If deliveries of weapons take place, they fully meet the regime of control mechanisms and Russia's international obligations," Kosachev said.

The Washington Times reported on Friday, citing high-ranking officials from the Bush administration, that the companies in question included Russia's state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport, the Kolomna Design Bureau and the Tula Design Bureau of Instrument Building.

Source: Xinhua