Deputy Foreign Minister Boris Malakhov said that he had handed to U.S. Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs Bolton a note of protest concerning U.S. sanctions imposed against three Russian state enterprises for allegedly supplying weapons to countries that the United States claims support international terrorism. The Kremlin's note says that Moscow considers the U.S. sanctions "illegitimate" because there are no internationally approved bans on selling weapons to Sudan, Syria, or Libya. (ABNews)