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The Trump administration had prepared a sanctions package in response to Russia’s poisoning of Alexei Navalny, but Biden’s national security team wants to chart its own course.

Report expected to list small number of Russia-linked entities involved in gas pipeline that will supply to Europe.

U.S. Expected to Leave Germans Out of Next Nord Stream Sanctions Bloomberg 19/02/2021 Nick Wadhams and Vanessa Dezem (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is likely to hold off sanctioning any German entities for now over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia, according to four people familiar with the matter, as the Biden administration seeks to halt the project without antagonizing a close European ally. A key report to Congress that was due last Tuesday could be out as soon as Frida...

Saturday, 03 April 2021, 02:23 Security Challenges in Eastern Europe in 2021: Play of Big Powers 17.02.2021 09:22 Ukrinform On January 28, 2021, the Eastern Europe Security Institute (EESI) held its first public event in 2021 in a format of the International Round Table "Security Challenges in Eastern Europe in 2021: Play of Big Powers." The event was organized at the platform of the Ukrinform National News Agency of Ukraine. Fifteen prominent statesmen and women, politicians and diplomats of U...

© Getty Images Will the Biden administration be Obama’s third term — a “do-over” — when it comes to foreign policy? It’s crystal clear that the personnel are largely the same, at least when it comes to foreign policy. As Jackson Diehl in The Washington Post put it just before the inauguration, “If personnel is policy, a full-on revival of Obamaism might seem likely. Secretary of state nominee Antony Blinken And yet, some observers have suggested that things may be a bit different...

The rebirth of the State Department’s Office of Sanctions Coordination: Guidelines for success U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken addresses reporters during his first press briefing at the State Department in Washington, U.S., January 27, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/Pool Buried in the 5,593-page stimulus bill signed into law last December was a significant institutional reform of the State Department: the (re-)creation of an Office of Sanctions Coordination. The office is modeled on the f...

Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, who served in four different Cabinet-level posts and helped guide America out of the Cold War, died Saturday

Secretary of State George Shultz, center, walks with President Reagan and Vice President George Bush on his arrival at the White House in January 1985 after two days of arms talks with the Soviet Union in Geneva. Shultz died Saturday at the age of 100. Barry Thumma/AP toggle caption Barry Thumma/AP Secretary of State George Shultz, center, walks with President Reagan and Vice President George Bush on his arrival at the White House in January 1985 afte...

Reconciling transatlantic differences over Nord Stream 2 Flag of Federal Republic of Germany waving in front of the German parliament building (Reichstag) in Berlin, Germany (Katatonia82/Shutterstock) From the time it was first proposed in 2011, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has divided the United States and the project’s European supporters, principally Germany. Nord Stream 2 is not simply a US-Europe issue or a US-Germany issue, however. Many in Europe, including Central and Eastern Europe...

A Moscow court sentenced Navalny to more than two and a half years in prison. How should the United States and its allies respond?