[Peace-discuss] The US Treasury's 'Kremlin List'

[C G Estabrook]

https://www.rt.com/news/417385-us-kremlin-list-russia/ <https://www.rt.com/news/417385-us-kremlin-list-russia/>

Putin’s response: “The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on” 

(Along the BRI, as elsewhere…)
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> January 30, 2018
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> Kremlin Condemns U.S. Roster of Russian Elite
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> The Kremlin has condemned a list published by the U.S. Treasury of more than two hundred Russian businesspeople and officials whom the United States says benefit from their close relationships ( <http://links.cfr.mkt5175.com/ctt?kn=27&ms=NTU4NzU0NTcS1&r=NTIzMzI0MDU3MzMS1&b=0&j=MTMyNDgzMzAyMgS2&mt=1&rt=0>FT <http://links.cfr.mkt5175.com/ctt?kn=25&ms=NTU4NzU0NTcS1&r=NTIzMzI0MDU3MzMS1&b=0&j=MTMyNDgzMzAyMgS2&mt=1&rt=0>) <http://links.cfr.mkt5175.com/ctt?kn=24&ms=NTU4NzU0NTcS1&r=NTIzMzI0MDU3MzMS1&b=0&j=MTMyNDgzMzAyMgS2&mt=1&rt=0> with the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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> The Treasury was required to compile the list, which was released late on Monday, after Congress passed legislation in August to impose sanctions on Iran, North Korea, and Russia. The individuals named in the report are not subject to new sanctions (BBC) <http://links.cfr.mkt5175.com/ctt?kn=22&ms=NTU4NzU0NTcS1&r=NTIzMzI0MDU3MzMS1&b=0&j=MTMyNDgzMzAyMgS2&mt=1&rt=0>, but the Treasury said it could use the report to decide on future sanctions. The move could further strain relations with Russia, which called the list a roster of "enemies" of the United States ( <http://links.cfr.mkt5175.com/ctt?kn=36&ms=NTU4NzU0NTcS1&r=NTIzMzI0MDU3MzMS1&b=0&j=MTMyNDgzMzAyMgS2&mt=1&rt=0>WSJ <http://links.cfr.mkt5175.com/ctt?kn=21&ms=NTU4NzU0NTcS1&r=NTIzMzI0MDU3MzMS1&b=0&j=MTMyNDgzMzAyMgS2&mt=1&rt=0>) <http://links.cfr.mkt5175.com/ctt?kn=26&ms=NTU4NzU0NTcS1&r=NTIzMzI0MDU3MzMS1&b=0&j=MTMyNDgzMzAyMgS2&mt=1&rt=0>.
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> ANALYSIS
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> "The minimal sanctions applied thus far have failed to send a sufficiently strong message <http://links.cfr.mkt5175.com/ctt?kn=53&ms=NTU4NzU0NTcS1&r=NTIzMzI0MDU3MzMS1&b=0&j=MTMyNDgzMzAyMgS2&mt=1&rt=0> [to Moscow]," Robert D. Blackwill and Philip H. Gordon write for Foreign Affairs.
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> "All in all, the report is disappointing in its lack of insight, reading as a 'who is who' of the Russian political and business establishment, without any attempt to establish whether any of them are actually involved in corruption <http://links.cfr.mkt5175.com/ctt?kn=9&ms=NTU4NzU0NTcS1&r=NTIzMzI0MDU3MzMS1&b=0&j=MTMyNDgzMzAyMgS2&mt=1&rt=0> or any activity detrimental to U.S. interests," writes Alina Ryzhonkova for the Moscow Times.
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> "Russia's political war against the West has been going strong for decades <http://links.cfr.mkt5175.com/ctt?kn=39&ms=NTU4NzU0NTcS1&r=NTIzMzI0MDU3MzMS1&b=0&j=MTMyNDgzMzAyMgS2&mt=1&rt=0> and shows no signs of abating," Alina Polyakova writes for Axios.
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