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The 2014 explosions at ammunition depots in the Czech Republic could be part of a long-term operation by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces against Ukraine, according to a general investigation by Bellingcat, The Insider and Respekt.
Bellingcat’s data supports the hypothesis that the 2014 explosions in the Czech Republic were part of a long-term GRU operation aimed at disrupting Ukraine’s capabilities to procure weapons and munition critical to its defense against Russian troops and Russia-sponsored militants in the war in eastern Ukraine,” according to the investigation, released on April 26.
II. New Executive Order Targeting the Harmful
Foreign Activities of the Russian Government
On April 15, President Biden signed Executive Order 14024, Blocking Property with Respect to Specified Harmful Foreign
Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation,
declaring a national emergency to deal with certain activities
carried out by the Russian government. The order cites several
examples of such activities, including Russian government efforts
to undermine US and foreign elections, malicious
cyber-enabled activities, employing transnational
corruption to influence foreign governments, targeting
dissidents and journalists abroad, and violating well-established principles of international law, including
respect for the territorial integrity of states.
Executive Order 14024 authorizes the imposition of sanctions
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The Biden administration has issued new sanctions on Russian individuals and entities as well as prohibitions on US financial institutions transactions with Russia s Central Bank, National Wealth Fund, and Ministry of Finance.
Following indications that it would take a tougher stance on Russia, on April 15, 2021, the Biden Administration issued new sanctions targeting Russian individuals and entities for a range of “continued and growing malign behavior” in the form of a new Executive Order (the Russia EO) as well as Directive 1 prohibiting certain activities of U.S. financial institutions (Russia Directive 1). The Russia EO allows for the imposition of sanctions against Russian persons operating in certain sectors of the Russian economy or who have been deemed to engage in a variety of activities contrary to the interests of the United States. Russia Directive 1 prohibits U.S. financial institutions from engaging in
The Czech Senate called the 2014 explosions in Vrbetica an act of state terrorism against one EU member state, and therefore against the entire EU. As many as 67 out of 72 members of the Czech Senate voted for the relevant resolution, the Czech News Agency reports. The Czech authorities accuse Russia s GRU (The Main Intelligence Directorate) of those explosions.
The Czech senators also called on the government of the country to terminate the agreement on friendly relations and cooperation with Russia and reduce the number of employees of the Russian embassy in Prague to only one person. They believe that the incident in Vrbetica should be discussed at the level of the UN Security Council and the governing bodies of NATO and the EU. They also demanded Russia should pay the Czech Republic a compensation for those explosions and offered to exclude Russia from tenders for the construction of nuclear power plants and other critical infrastructure.
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