{"id":30566,"date":"2018-10-26T16:45:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30566"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:45:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:15:51","slug":"u-s-announces-expanded-sanctions-against-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-announces-expanded-sanctions-against-russians\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. announces expanded sanctions against Russians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/election-meddling-us-announces-expanded-sanctions-against-russians\/article23263096.ece\"><strong>U.S. announces expanded sanctions against Russians<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. slapped sanctions on 19 Russian individuals and five groups, including Moscow\u2019s intelligence services, for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and malicious cyber attacks<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional sanctions in the future<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There would be additional sanctions against Russian government officials and oligarchs \u201cfor their destabilising activities\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The new sanctions also include Russian intelligence services, the Federal Security Service and Main Intelligence Directorate, and six individuals working on behalf of the GRU.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Effect<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This would sever the individuals\u2019 access to the U.S. financial system<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that\u00a0Russia\u00a0interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign using hacking and propaganda, an effort that eventually included attempting to tilt the race in President Donald Trump&#8217;s favour.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How: False personas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The indictment said Russians adopted false online personas to push divisive messages, traveled to the U.S. to collect intelligence and staged political rallies while posing as Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. announces expanded sanctions against Russians What has happened? The U.S. slapped sanctions on 19 Russian individuals and five groups, including Moscow\u2019s intelligence services, for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and malicious cyber attacks Additional sanctions in the future There would be additional sanctions against Russian government officials and oligarchs \u201cfor their destabilising activities\u201d.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-announces-expanded-sanctions-against-russians\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. announces expanded sanctions against Russians<\/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-30566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704804713},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30566","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=30566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}