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The first months of the Biden Administration signaled the new US President's willingness to remain tough on the People's Republic of China in…

Russia on Friday accused three American embassy employees of theft and demanded that they leave the country or face prosecution, further exacerbating already tense relations.

Alexis is a research associate in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy. Demonstrators hold up banners in front of the Russian embassy in The Hague, Netherlands in support of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny on January 23, 2021. Nacho Calonge / Getty Images Key Takeaways It is commendable that the United States is holding Russia accountable for its transgressions against Aleksei Navalny. It is positive that the United States coordinated its sanctions with the European Union, because it signals a renewal of close cooperation with Europe. Th...

Navalny has accused President Vladimir Putin of being behind the attempted assassination attack, which the Kremlin has denied. The U.S. announcement came on the heels of European Union sanctions against four senior Russian officials -- Aleksandr Kalashnikov, the federal prisons administrator; Aleksandr Bastrykin, the head of the Investigative Committee; Igor Krasnov, Russia's prosecutor-general; and Viktor Zolotov, tghe director of the National Guard. The United States also sanctioned Kalashnikov and Krasnov, as well as Sergei Kiriyenko, first deputy chief of staff; Andrei Yarin, the chief of...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. OFAC designated seven Russian government officials in response to the August 2020 poisoning and January 2021 imprisonment of opposition leader Aleksey Navalny. According to OFAC, the Novichok nerve agent, which European laboratories identified as responsible for Mr. Navalny's poisoning, has only ever been utilized as a chemical weapon by Russia, and is only accessible to Russian state authorities. Pursuant to Executive Order ("EO") 13661 ("Blocking Property of Additional Persons Contrib...