Swordsmyth
12-19-2018, 08:43 PM
The United States imposed fresh Russia-related sanctions on Wednesday, expanding a blacklist of individuals allegedly involved in a Kremlin-backed campaign to meddle with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, among other misdeeds.The U.S. Treasury Department twinned that development with an announcement that it would lift sanctions on major aluminum company Rusal and two other firms tied to Oleg Deripaska after a deal was struck to sever the Russian oligarch's control over them.
Deripaska himself will remain under sanctions, Treasury said.
The fresh sanctions targeted 15 members of a Russian military intelligence service and four entities involved in the alleged election interference, the hacking of the World Anti-Doping Agency and other "malign activities" around the world, the Treasury said in a statement on its website.
The action, which followed sanctions in April on Deripaska and six other oligarchs, were "in response to Russia's continued disregard for international norms," the statement from Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said.
More at: https://news.yahoo.com/u-imposes-fresh-russia-related-sanctions-treasury-180400779.html
Deripaska himself will remain under sanctions, Treasury said.
The fresh sanctions targeted 15 members of a Russian military intelligence service and four entities involved in the alleged election interference, the hacking of the World Anti-Doping Agency and other "malign activities" around the world, the Treasury said in a statement on its website.
The action, which followed sanctions in April on Deripaska and six other oligarchs, were "in response to Russia's continued disregard for international norms," the statement from Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said.
More at: https://news.yahoo.com/u-imposes-fresh-russia-related-sanctions-treasury-180400779.html