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The Biden Administration announced new and significant trade sanctions against Russia. The action was long expected given the Biden Administration’s criticism of Russia, and was a comprehensive response to Russia’s interference in the 2020 US election, its SolarWinds cyberattack and its ongoing occupation of Crimea and threatening addition of troops along the Ukraine border.
Targeting the Harmful Foreign Activities of the Russian Government, authorizing a broad range of sanctions authorities in response to Russian activities designed to undermine free and fair democratic elections; to engage in and facilitate malicious cyber activities against the United States; use transnational corruption to influence foreign governments; pursue extraterritorial activities targeting dissidents or journalists; and violate well-established principles of international law.
Yevgeniy Prigozhin: Putin s chef with a Karachi proxy
Fri, Apr 16 2021 18:27 IST |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin. (File Photo: IANS). Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi/Washington, April 16 : Yevgeniy Prigozhin is the Russian financier of the Internet Research Agency (IRA), the Russian troll farm that the US Treasury sanctioned for interfering in the 2016 presidential election. Karachi-based Pakistan nationals and companies are now part of US sanctions for helping IRA activities and acting as proxies. While going after and tracking down IRA and Prigozhin, the US Treasury has sanctioned the Karachi-based individuals and companies.
Prighozhin is also known as Putin s chef and is a Russian catering magnate.
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FACTBOX-U.S. s new actions against Russia reach from Africa to Crimea to Pakistan Reuters 2 hrs ago
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury sanctioned 32 Russian individuals and companies involved in a global network of disinformation, sanctioned entities and individuals for violating Ukraine s sovereignty, and issued new rules for U.S. banks.
RUSSIAN CURRENCY AND DEBT
U.S. financial institutions are prohibited from trading the rouble, or bonds issued after June 14, 2021 in any currency by Russia s Central Bank, finance ministry or national wealth fund.
RUSSIAN TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES
COMPANIES IN CRIMEA
Leonid Kronidovich Ryzhenkin, the CEO of Mostotrest, a Russian construction company that the Treasury said was involved in the construction of the Kerch Strait bridge, which the U.S. says violated Ukraine s sovereignty.