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16 April, 2021
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US imposed sanctions on Russia

The US imposed sanctions on Russia

The United States announced sanctions against Russia on Thursday and the expulsion of 10 diplomats in retaliation for what Washington says is the Kremlin’s U.S. election interference, a massive cyberattack and other hostile activity.
President Joe Biden’s broadside against Russia came the same week as he offered to meet President Vladimir Putin for their first summit.
In an executive order, Mr Biden widened restrictions on U.S. banks trading in Russian government debt, expelled 10 diplomats who include alleged spies, and blacklisted 32 individuals accused of meddling in the 2020 presidential election.
Mr Biden’s order “sends a signal that the U.S. will impose costs in a strategic and economically impactful manner on Russia if it continues or escalates its destabilising international action,” the White House said.
Response ‘inevitable’
The Kremlin said on Thursday that sanctions would not “help” momentum for a summit and once the White House unveiled its measures, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned a Russian response was “inevitable.”

“The United States is not ready to come to terms with the objective reality that there is a multipolar world that excludes American hegemony,” spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
The latest tension comes amid worries both in the U.S. and its European allies over Russia’s recent troop build-up on the border of Ukraine.
The imprisonment of Alexei Navalny, who is effectively the last open political opponent to Mr Putin, has further spiked concerns in the West.
The White House statement listed in first place Moscow’s “efforts to undermine the conduct of free and fair democratic elections and democratic institutions in the U.S. and its allies and partners.”
This referred to allegations that Russian intelligence agencies mounted disinformation and dirty tricks campaigns during the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, in part to help Donald Trump’s candidacy.
The White House said the sanctions likewise respond to “malicious cyber activities against the U.S. and its allies and partners,” referring to the massive so-called SolarWinds hack of U.S. government computer systems last year.
The statement also called out Russia’s extraterritorial “targeting” of dissidents and journalists and undermining of security in countries important to U.S. national security.
In addition, the Department of Treasury, together with the EU, Australia, Britain and Canada, sanctioned eight individuals and entities associated with Russia’s occupation of Crimea in Ukraine.
In Brussels, the NATO military alliance said U.S. allies “support and stand in solidarity with the U.S., following its announcement of actions to respond to Russia’s destabilising activities”.

Source: TH

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