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Recently, the U.S. Treasury Department s Office of Foreign
Assets Control ( OFAC ) sanctioned various individuals
and entities connected to Russia s technology sector and also
expanded sanctions against dealings in Russian sovereign
debt. In addition to these immediate actions, President Biden
also issued a new Executive Order which will significantly expand
OFAC s authority to impose future sanctions against Russia.
Background
The White House published a Fact Sheet which explains the recent sanctions
actions were a response to Russian election interference and
cyber-attacks directed at the United States. A month prior to
The Director of National Intelligence has ostensibly created a new “center” for the sharing and analysis of information and intelligence about foreign interference in US elections. Its real focus is much more nefarious.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced in a statement on Monday that it was creating a new intelligence “center”focused on tracking so-called “
foreign malign influence,” reported Politico. This new entity, known as the Foreign Malign Influence Center, was mandated in the recent intelligence and defense budget authorization acts, representing the reality that the impetus for its creation came from Congress, and not the intelligence community.
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Foreign Threats to the US 2020 Presidential Election . In this document, the US intelligence community assessed that: Russian President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian government organizations conducted, influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden s candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting former President Trump, undermining public confidence in the electoral process, and exacerbating sociopolitical divisions in the US.
But the most damning portion of this assessment came when it delved into the specific methodology employed by Russia to achieve these nefarious aims. Throughout the election cycle, Russia s online influence actors sought to affect US public perceptions of the candidates, as well as advance Moscow s long standing goals of undermining confidence in US election processes and increasing sociopolitical divisions among the American people. During the presidential primaries and dating back to 2019, these actors backed candidates from b