The Biden administration announced punitive sanctions on senior Russian government figures over the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and reiterated a demand that Navalny be released from detention. The sanctions block access to financial or other assets in the United States for seven top figures around Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Biden administration announced new export restrictions on items that could be used to manufacture chemical weapons and a widening of existing sanctions under a law controlling use of such weapons. The names of the government figures that the sanctions will impact will not be made public until later.
It is fascinating to me to see the dynamic that the Biden administration is creating with Russia compared to the Trump administration. Moreover, the export restrictions are very well chosen as the control of weapons especially chemical weapons is a critical issue. Moreover, this issue demonstrates how international politics impacts all aspects of our lives even if it isn't in the country we live in that something is occurring.
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/russia-biden-navalny-sanctions/2021/03/02/4367d342-7b5e-11eb-85cd-9b7fa90c8873_story.html
-Katie Huey, Blog Post #6
3/2/2021
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