The renormalization group approach is applied to the study of the short-tim
e critical behaviour of the d-dimensional n-component anisotropic cubic spi
n systems with long-range interaction of the form p(sigma)s(p)s(-p) in mome
ntum space. Firstly, the system is quenched from a high temperature to the
critical temperature and then relaxes to equilibrium within the model A dyn
amics. The asymptotic scaling laws and the initial slip exponents theta' an
d theta of the order parameter and the response function, respectively, are
calculated to the second order in epsilon = 2 sigma - d. For 1 less than o
r equal to d < 2<sigma> and n > n(c), the cubic anisotropy affects the shor
t-time critical behaviour.