The United States on Thursday imposed a series of sanctions on Russia, including restrictions on its debt market, allegedly punishing it for interfering in last year's U.S. election, cyber-attacks, Ukraine's harassment and other so-called crimes.
The US government has banned Russian companies, fired Russian strategists and barred US banks from buying private bonds from Russia's largest bank, the national economic fund and the Finance Minister. The United States has warned Russia that further sanctions could be imposed, saying it does not want to increase sanctions.
Russia's foreign ministry has responded angrily, calling on the US embassy to negotiate a "retaliatory action" soon. A spokesman for the department also said the potential conference could be disrupted.
Russia denies interfering in US elections
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin to express concern about the crisis and the deployment of Russian troops in the Crimea and on the Ukrainian border, although the US secretary general has only seen the danger of "subordinates" invading Russia in the next few weeks.
Biden, who also raised the US-Russian summit, is trying to strike a balance between blocking what Washington sees as Russia's violent behavior, while avoiding deep-seated corruption in US-Russian relations and maintaining a place of cooperation.
"The key to this is: It is in the United States to work with Russia. We must also do it," Biden told reporters.
But "when Russia wants to violate American interests, we will respond," he said. "I was clear with President Putin that we could go further, but I chose not to do that. I chose equality."
Russia has said Washington's actions are in conflict with U.S. policy. The sanctions are a deliberate move to intensify international tensions, a spokesman for Russia's foreign ministry said.
In the midst of his actions, Biden signed an executive order authorizing the US government to impose sanctions on any part of the Russian economy and use it to limit Russia's ability to issue an independent debt to punish Moscow for interfering in U.S. elections. Luke 2020.
Biden blocked U.S. financial institutions To participate in the main market of Russian private banks from June 14. US banks have been banned from participating in the main bond market of unpaid states since 2019.
The United States on Thursday imposed a series of sanctions on Russia, including restrictions on its debt market, punishing it for interfering in last year's U.S. election, cyber-attacks, Ukraine's harassment and other so-called crimes.
The US government has banned Russian companies, fired Russian strategists and barred US banks from buying private bonds from Russia's largest bank, the national economic fund and the Finance Minister. The United States has warned Russia that further sanctions could be imposed, saying it does not want to increase sanctions.
Russia's foreign ministry has responded angrily, calling on the US embassy to negotiate a "retaliatory action" soon. A spokesman for the department also said the potential conference could be disrupted.
Russia denies interfering in US elections
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin to express concern about the crisis and the deployment of Russian troops in the Crimea and on the Ukrainian border, although the US secretary general has only seen the danger of "subordinates" invading Russia in the next few weeks.
Biden, who also raised the US-Russian summit, is trying to strike a balance between blocking what Washington sees as Russia's violent behavior, while avoiding deep-seated corruption in US-Russian relations and maintaining a place of cooperation.
"The key to this is: It is in the United States to work with Russia. We must also do it," Biden told reporters.
But "when Russia wants to violate American interests, we will respond," he said. "I was clear with President Putin that we could go further, but I chose not to do that. I chose equality."
Russia has said Washington's actions are in conflict with U.S. policy. The sanctions are a deliberate move to intensify international tensions, a spokesman for Russia's foreign ministry said.
In the midst of his actions, Biden signed an executive order authorizing the US government to impose sanctions on any part of the Russian economy and use it to limit Russia's ability to issue an independent debt to punish Moscow for interfering in U.S. elections. Luke 2020.
Biden blocked U.S. financial institutions To participate in the main market of Russian private banks from June 14. US banks have been banned from participating in the main bond market of unpaid states since 2019.
He did not prevent them, however, from buying such a loan on the second market, a move that could have a profound effect on Russian business and financial markets, which seemed to be punishable out of business before the next loss.
The Ministry of Finance has also listed 32 organizations and individuals who say they have made efforts aimed at the Russian government to influence the 2020 presidential election and other "acts of disrespect and disruption."
ANALYSIS: RUSSIA CONTINUES TO TEST U.S.
In partnership with the European Union, Britain, Australia and Canada, the Treasury also imposed sanctions on eight individuals linked to the Moscow occupation of the Crimea, which Russia took over in Ukraine in 2014.
The White House has said it fired 10 Russian strategists from Washington, including Russian intelligence agents, and for the first time, officially named the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) as the perpetrator of the SolarWinds hack. The organization said the allegations were "absurd" and "an air bag."
The U.S. government is preparing a new administrative order to strengthen cyber security, a U.S. official told reporters, suggesting we could include things like encryption and multifactor authentication.
The White House also said it would respond to reports that Russia had given troops to Taliban-linked forces to kill American troops in Afghanistan. U.S. intelligence agencies They have "less than" confidence in their assessment of those reports, in part because they rely on the unreliable evidence sometimes of detainees, he said.
Russia has long dismissed allegations of imposing U.S. military aid in Afghanistan.
Andrew Weiss, a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think analyst, doubted that American sanctions could change "competitive and antagonistic" relations in the short term or prevent Russia in the future.
"I would be surprised if today's extremely rigged announcements by Biden officials somehow tackle relations," he said, adding that Russia was willing to cooperate on certain issues but that there would be no intelligence conference in Ukraine or election interference.
"I do not think it is realistic to expect that new sanctions will change Russia's risk figures in a fundamental way," he added. "It is expected that the Russian people will continue to investigate and test our determination."
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