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U.S. imposes fresh Russia sanctions for election meddling

By Nathan Layne

 

FILE PHOTO: The United States flag flies atop the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington November 18, 2008. REUTERS/Jim Bourg

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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 aluminium 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.

 

The move also comes on the heels of U.S. President Donald Trump's signing of an executive order in September to impose sanctions on any country or person that tries to interfere in U.S. elections. Trump issued the order amid criticism over his handling of Russian election meddling.

 

"The administration hasn't taken its eye off the Russian intelligence service and the role they play in malign activities around the world," said Michael Dobson, who worked on sanctions policy towards Russia at OFAC and is now at the Morrison & Foerster law firm. "I think it's definitely a strong action."

 

The sanctioned individuals include several intelligence officers who were allegedly engaged in the hacking of Democratic Party officials and in campaigns to sow discord over social media with the aim of disrupting U.S. elections.

 

The list includes Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, who was charged in October in Virginia for attempting to interfere in the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, and who has been named in court papers as the accountant for a collection of Russian companies indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller earlier this year.

 

Treasury also singled out Victor Boyarkin for his ties to Deripaska. Boyarkin is a former intelligence officer who reports directly to Deripaska and helped provide "Russian financial support" to a Montenegrin political party ahead of elections in Montenegro in 2016, Treasury's statement said.

 

The Treasury sanctioned several individuals for their alleged roles in the hacking of the World Anti-Doping Agency, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and other organizations between 2016 and 2018.

 

It also sanctioned two Russian intelligence officers, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, for their alleged role in the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in March.

 

(Reporting by Doina Chiacu and Nathan Layne; editing by Chizu Nomiyama and James Dalgleish)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-12-20

[YetAnother]

52 minutes ago, webfact said:

The Treasury sanctioned several individuals

what does that mean ? that they cannot visit the usa ? doesn't sound very 'strong' to me

[1337markus]

Pathetic, do they think Russians really care? Better if US looked after its own backyard lots of issues there.

[mtls2005]

Double-secret probation.

 

 

 

 

 

Trump admin to lift sanctions on firms owned by Russian oligarch Deripaska

 

The Trump administration plans to lift sanctions on companies owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska after he significantly reduced his ownership stake in them. 

 

https://thehill.com/regulation/national-security/422122-trump-admin-to-lift-sanctions-on-firms-owned-by-russian-oligarch

 

 

 

 

[Tug]

Soooo let’s seeee Donald sanctions a couple of Russian dudes then tucks and runs from Syria abandoning our allies hummmmm I think he’s doing his distraction game to bad we are all pawns in it 

[scorecard]

3 minutes ago, Tug said:

Soooo let’s seeee Donald sanctions a couple of Russian dudes then tucks and runs from Syria abandoning our allies hummmmm I think he’s doing his distraction game to bad we are all pawns in it 

Plus:

 

"U.S. imposes fresh Russia sanctions for election meddling",

and a hundred times the orange clown and his female unincredible mouthpiece have insisted there was no russian meddling in the elections.

 

And how does all of that sit with the Mueller investigations?

[Emdog]

Guess those oligarchs have to take Disneyland off their bucket list... for now. That'll teach them!

[spidermike007]

The hole just keeps getting deeper. No collusion? Wonder how many really think that is the case, at this point? Is there any possibility none of this massive effort to get Trump elected, was not coordinated with his campaign, and that he did not know about any of it? Trump's entire career has been built upon a mountain of lies, deception, deflection, theft, and dishonesty. Why would this effort to get elected be any different? Think about it. Look at his history, his track record, the 3,600 lawsuits, the five massive bankruptcies, the five deterrents. No honor in any of it. Never. Not his M.O. 

 

The way the Russians targeted black voters, was both brilliant, and an abomination. 

[Thakkar]

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

The hole just keeps getting deeper. No collusion? Wonder how many really think that is the case, at this point? Is there any possibility none of this massive effort to get Trump elected, was not coordinated with his campaign, and that he did not know about any of it? Trump's entire career has been built upon a mountain of lies, deception, deflection, theft, and dishonesty. Why would this effort to get elected be any different? Think about it. Look at his history, his track record, the 3,600 lawsuits, the five massive bankruptcies, the five deterrents. No honor in any of it. Never. Not his M.O. 

 

The way the Russians targeted black voters, was both brilliant, and an abomination. 

Trump spent his entire life being a criminal con man scumbag. But when The Russians approached him to work together* for his election, he suddenly found his conscience and declined the offer**

 

Who believes this?

 

 

 

* We KNOW they did: 1) Don Jr Trump tower meeting, 2) Erik Prince Maldives meeting, 3) Flynn-Kislyak meeting 4) Manafort Derispaska email —and these are just the ones in the news. We don’t yet know what else Mueller knows.

 

** But didn’t report the contact to the FBI as any reponsible American candidate should have.

[Basil B]

Note: the headline said U.S. not Trump imposes...

 

[Basil B]

3 hours ago, Emdog said:

Guess those oligarchs have to take Disneyland off their bucket list... for now. That'll teach them!

there is always Disneyland Paris. 

[helpisgood]

6 hours ago, 1337markus said:

Pathetic, do they think Russians really care? Better if US looked after its own backyard lots of issues there.

 

Fair question.  I am sure that for the vast majority of Russians such sanctions would be meaningless.

 

However, for the Russian "oligarchs" (or whatever a wealthy Russian is called) and other Russians of much means, they may have laundered their money by buying real estate, or some other USA-based asset, in the USA.  For example, imagine being wealthy and owning a swanky place in, say, south Florida near some wealthy Americans who are friendly to folks like Putin, but suddenly you cannot even go there anymore and hang out with them. 

 

I have not researched on each of these named Russians, so I may be wrong.  Still, maybe the Americans did their research on this.  Maybe someone has more specific info?

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[spidermike007]

2 hours ago, Thakkar said:

Trump spent his entire life being a criminal con man scumbag. But when The Russians approached him to work together* for his election, he suddenly found his conscience and declined the offer**

 

Who believes this?

 

 

 

* We KNOW they did: 1) Don Jr Trump tower meeting, 2) Erik Prince Maldives meeting, 3) Flynn-Kislyak meeting 4) Manafort Derispaska email —and these are just the ones in the news. We don’t yet know what else Mueller knows.

 

** But didn’t report the contact to the FBI as any reponsible American candidate should have.

 

Absolutely correct. The one thing we know for sure, is that Trump rarely ever conducts a deal that is fair. Not his M.O. I worked in NYC during the 1980's in commercial real estate, and had dealings with people who sold property to Trump. They all said the same thing. Trump personally attended every closing, and spent hours upon hours negotiating the tiniest amounts of money as if it were his last dollar. He would make demands that were so unreasonable, so uncustomary, and so abusive, that anyone who had the ability, would just walk away. But, alot of these guys were alot smaller than Trump, and they needed to make the sale happen, so they sucked it up, and caved into his crazy demands. My attorney, who represented a few sellers, who did deals with Trump, told me that after his client left the closing table, after a brutal 8 hour session (escrow companies are not used in NY state, at least not back then) he felt like he had just served an 8 year term in a federal prison, and been violated by every single inmate repeatedly. This came from a really straight, and honest guy. He was just recalling things very objectively, as he attended the session, and saw it all first hand. The things he said about Trump I cannot repeat here. I heard those kinds of stories from multiple sources back then. 

 

We all knew who he was when he was elected. Some of us had a much greater understanding of the depths this man was willing to sink to, to make a buck, than others. But even amongst my friends who voted for him, and still support him, the majority state that they know who he is, how bad a person he is, and still support him, as they like his policies. 

 

I think there is no question that he meddled in this, and colluded with the Russians. I do not think he had it in himself, to say no. 

[mtls2005]

1 hour ago, helpisgood said:

However, for the Russian "oligarchs" (or whatever a wealthy Russian is called) and other Russians of much means, they may have laundered their money by buying real estate

 

 

Back in 2012. 22-year-old Ekaterina Rybolovleva, daughter of Russian fertilizer magnate Dmitry Rybolovlev, dropped $88 million for a 10-room apartment in NYC. Mr. Rybolovlev was in the midst of a messy divorce and was trying to shield cash from his wife.

 

trump flipped a $41 million tear-down in Plam Beach to the same Mr. Rybolovlev for a tidy $95 million. At the time trump was desperate for cash, and along comes a Russian. How handy. Nothing to see here Mr. Mueller.

 

 

[Sealbash]

 

 
I think there is no question that he meddled in this, and colluded with the Russians. I do not think he had it in himself, to say no. 

Yet after hundreds of millions of tax payer’s dollars spent over the last two years by trained investigators, still no proof?


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[BestB]

That’s the problem with US, administration does not keep up with times. The more sanctions US puts on Russia , the closer Russia gets with China and all other “bad guys”

 

US worried about China yet instead of making friends with Russia who has some influence with Chiba , US makes Russia bigger enemy.

 

Same with Iran and NK.

 

In the mean time Russia is making bigger and better deals with India and China , 2 super huge markets.

 

Maybe US has forgotten, you catch more bees with honey not with fieces. 

 

How about investing all that energy and money into defense , so no one can hack or interfere in your own yard????

[bristolboy]

33 minutes ago, Sealbash said:

 

Yet after hundreds of millions of tax payer’s dollars spent over the last two years by trained investigators, still no proof?


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Someone else who apparently has first hand knowledge of all the evidence Mueller has.

[spidermike007]

1 hour ago, Sealbash said:

 

Yet after hundreds of millions of tax payer’s dollars spent over the last two years by trained investigators, still no proof?


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How many indictments later? What kind of proof do you want? Sorry, but your loyalty to the Master is blinding your vision.

 

Now, Donald Trump has surrendered to Russia. US lost. Russia won in Syria. He informed the loyal Kurds by tweet. Disgraceful. Inelegant. He threw another ally under the bus. His M.O. Donald the is a coward, and the last man in the world you want as an ally.

[Becker]

1 hour ago, Sealbash said:

 

Yet after hundreds of millions of tax payer’s dollars spent over the last two years by trained investigators, still no proof?


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And you know this how?