{"id":30084,"date":"2018-10-26T14:08:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T08:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30084"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T08:38:04","slug":"u-s-sanctions-target-putins-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-sanctions-target-putins-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. sanctions target Putin\u2019s allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-international\/us-sanctions-target-putins-allies\/article23461084.ece\">U.S. sanctions target Putin\u2019s allie<\/a><\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-international\/us-sanctions-target-putins-allies\/article23461084.ece\">s<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. struck at the heart of President Vladimir Putin\u2019s inner circle on Friday, imposing sanctions on seven of Russia\u2019s most influential oligarchs and stoking a diplomatic crisis that some have dubbed a new Cold War.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Targets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In all, seven oligarchs, 12 companies they own or control, 17 senior Russian officials and a state-owned arms export company<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why US is taking this action?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In response to the totality of the Russian government\u2019s ongoing and increasingly brazen pattern of malign activity across the world<\/li>\n<li>This included their occupation of Crimea, instigation of violence in eastern Ukraine, support for the Assad regime in Syria and ongoing malicious cyber-activity<\/li>\n<li>Russia\u2019s continued attacks to subvert western democracies<\/li>\n<li>Russia\u2019s alleged interference in the U.S. election<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Russian response<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moscow on Saturday promised a \u201ctough response\u201d to new United States\u2019 sanctions imposed on seven of Russia\u2019s most influential oligarchs following the diplomatic crisis sparked by the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. sanctions target Putin\u2019s allies What has happened? The U.S. struck at the heart of President Vladimir Putin\u2019s inner circle on Friday, imposing sanctions on seven of Russia\u2019s most influential oligarchs and stoking a diplomatic crisis that some have dubbed a new Cold War. Total Targets In all, seven oligarchs, 12 companies they own or&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-sanctions-target-putins-allies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. sanctions target Putin\u2019s allies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704858408},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}