financial services, different parts of their economy that the u.s. administration feels would have a significant impact on russia. it's not to say that the sanctions they and european leaders have already imposed would not have any impact, but they said they wanted to leave some room to ramp things up, as russia may do. the u.s. saying, though, that they have a deep concern about those troops that are massed at the ukrainian border. deb? >> has there been any response from russia with this news? >> reporter: yeah. right after that announcement was made yesterday, the russian foreign minister said, well, they don't cling to the g-8, they don't see a big problem in it. although you have to think, you know, this is hugely embarrassing for russia, that they were going to host the g-8, which was something of a coup for them, and they just came out of the olympics, being this glorious celebration of russia and proving that they could put on something like that. so, the u.s. has said that russia highly values its