19 minutes agoU.S. Increase sanctions on Russia
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The United States imposed new sanctions related to Russia, added to a blacklist set up in April, to punish individuals suspected of involvement in a Kremlin-backed campaign to influence the 2016 US presidential elections. The U.S. Treasury Department accompanied [...]
The US Treasury Department accompanied that development, with an announcement that it would lift sanctions on the large Russian aluminum company and two other firms associated with Oleg Deripaskan, after a deal was reached to cut off Russian oligarchs' control over them.
The new sanctions targeted 15 members of a Russian military intelligence service and four subjects involved in the alleged election intervention, the attack of the Anti-Doping World Agency and other bad “ ” activities worldwide, the Treasury said in a statement on the website.
The move, which followed April sanctions against the seven oligarchs and 12 companies, was “in response to the continued disrespect of international norms on the part of Russia”, the statement of the Foreign Asset Control Office (OFAC) was further said in the statement of the Foreign Assets Control Office, tch broadcast.
The sanctioned individuals include several intelligence officers who reportedly committed themselves to attacking Democratic Party officials and in campaigning to “plant” disagreements over social media aimed at damaging US elections.
