{"id":1706,"date":"2018-11-09T06:54:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T06:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2018-11-09T06:54:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T06:54:59","slug":"us-imposes-new-sanctions-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1706","title":{"rendered":"US imposes new sanctions on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington,\u00a0<\/strong>The US has imposed new sanctions against individuals and entities supporting Russia&#8217;s role in Ukraine issue, according to a statement issued by the Department of the Treasury.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury Department said in the statement that the designations of sanctions are three individuals and nine entities, which engaged in &#8220;serious human rights abuses&#8221; or advanced &#8220;Russian interest in the Crimea region&#8221;, Xinhua reported.<\/p>\n<p>All of these individuals&#8217; and entities&#8217; property and interests in property of the designated persons subject to US jurisdiction are blocked, and US persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The US State Department also said on Tuesday that it might impose another round of sanctions on Russia over the latter&#8217;s involvement in the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Britain in March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We consider these restrictions imposed by the US on Russia to be illegal, and we will also treat accordingly similar steps if they follow,&#8221; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the ongoing US sanctions on Russia and Washington&#8217;s recent stance on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the relations between Washington and Moscow have been strained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington,\u00a0The US has imposed new sanctions against individuals and entities supporting Russia&#8217;s role in Ukraine issue, according to a statement issued by the Department of the Treasury. The Treasury Department said in the statement that the designations of sanctions are three individuals and nine entities, which engaged in &#8220;serious human rights abuses&#8221; or advanced &#8220;Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}