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| Trump administration hits 24 Russians with sanctions over 'malign activity' |
| 2018-04-07 |
| [Guardian] The Trump administration announced new sanctions on seven Russian oligarchs and 17 top government officials on Friday, in a move that targets Vladimir Putin’s inner circle for "malign activity" including meddling in the 2016 US election and other aggressions. The new economic sanctions represent the most forceful action yet taken by the Trump administration against Putin’s circle. "The Russian government operates for the disproportionate benefit of oligarchs and government elites," said the treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin. "Russian oligarchs and elites who profit from this corrupt system will no longer be insulated from the consequences of their government’s destabilizing activities." Mnuchin cited Russian aggression in Crimea and Moscow’s support of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in the bloody civil war in Syria as well as "attempting to subvert western democracies, and malicious cyber activities" as reasons for the sanctions. Among the targeted Russians are Kirill Shamalov, who has grown massively wealthy since marrying Putin’s daughter in 2013. |
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