Russia lifts sanctions, punishes Biden and Blinken | Economie

Russia announced a series of sanctions in response to the United States on Tuesday (15) and sanctioned the country’s President Joe Biden and Foreign Minister Anthony Blinken, state agency TASS reported based on a decree from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow.

Among the measures are travel bans to the country against both and the freezing of assets in Russian enterprises. However, the ministry says the sanctions do not prevent “essential high-level contacts” between the two governments.

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These decisions are similar to those taken by Washington against President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

According to the memo, the measures are effective as of Tuesday, and were added to a “prohibited list” created “in response to a series of unprecedented sanctions”.

In addition to the two, other US advocates have been sanctioned, such as former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden’s son Hunter, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin, CIA chief William Burns, and the White House’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was also affected.

Since Moscow’s recognition of the breakaway Ukrainian regions, Donetsk and Luhansk, on February 22, and the start of armed attacks in Ukraine on February 24, Russia has been the target of several harsh sanctions packages from the most powerful Western countries. The United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union – plus many of their allies.

The actions attack both politicians linked to Putin, powerful corporations, banks, corporations and the country’s oligarchy.

This Tuesday, for example, the Council of the European Union ratified the fourth package of sanctions and the United Kingdom added an additional 370 Russians and Belarusians – a state allied with Moscow and accused of aiding and facilitating attacks in Ukraine – to its list of people. He was punished for supporting the Putin regime.