The administration of US President Joe Biden imposes new sanctions against banking institutions in Russia and the daughters of the President of the aggressor country Vladimir Putin, CNN reports..
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The administration is also imposing full blocking sanctions on a new group of Russian elites and their families, including Putin's adult daughters Maria Putina and Katerina Tikhonova, the wife and daughter of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and members of the Russian Security Council, including the former Russian president and prime minister.. The U.S. has already sanctioned more than 140 Russian oligarchs and their families, as well as more than 400 Russian government officials, according to a senior official..
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In addition, the US, in cooperation with the G7 and the EU, announces a ban on new investments in Russia. The corresponding decree must be signed by President Biden.
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will also apply full lockdown sanctions on critical large Russian state-owned enterprises, which the Treasury Department will announce on Thursday.. It is noted that the US Treasury has blocked the payment of Russia's debt in dollars held in US banks..
Yesterday, April 5, in connection with the unleashed full-scale war and war crimes of the Russian military, the EU announced another package of sanctions against the Russian Federation. Trade, transport and energy of the aggressor country suffered.