The U.S. Senate passed a bill toughening anti-Russian sanctions
Now the document, called “the Law on counteraction to enemies of America by sanctions”, must be signed by Donald trump.
WASHINGTON, July 28. /TASS/. The U.S. Senate approved Thursday a bill providing for tougher unilateral American sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea. The bill was filed by 98 votes against, only two.
Since Tuesday over this document majority vote of the members of the house of representatives, and now, this document, called “the Law on counteraction to enemies of America by sanctions”, will be on the Desk of US President Donald trump. The white house has in recent days signaled that trump supports the tightening of restrictive measures against these three States, however, will make a decision after you read the final version of the bill.
New punitive measures against Iran and North Korea were initially developed separately, but was combined with the anti-Russian sanctions.
The essence of anti-Russian measures
Document invests in the form of the law of restrictive measures against Russia adopted by the previous U.S. administration led by President Barack Obama on the basis of his Executive decrees. We are talking about restrictions on 6 March and 18 December 2014, 1 April 2015, 26 July and 29 December 2016. These sanctions have created significant obstacles to cooperation between the armed forces of Russia and USA, as well as intelligence and military-industrial complexes of the two countries receiving the Russian economy, primarily energy companies, and loans in the West.
Bilateral cooperation in the field of space exploration, or rather the products and services purchased by NASA from the Russian side, eliminated from the scope of these restrictions.