LOST IN TRANSLATION? Trump Team Puts Putin Victims on Russian 'Oligarch List'
Source: The Daily Beast
Kremlin watchers say theyre shocked the U.S. bunched critics of the regime together with people potentially linked to interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
ANNA NEMTSOVA
ANDREW DESIDERIO
01.30.18 1:20 PM ET
MOSCOWOn Tuesday morning, Russia woke to news of the so-called Oligarch List issued by the U.S. Treasury department. On it were more than 200 names of the countrys top bureaucrats and businessmen. But the statement that accompanied it said that it should not be read as a roster of people who were being sanctioned. Or, for that matter, who will not be sanctioned. Some part of it, we were told, remains classified.
Analyzing the list that was made available, Russian observers wondered if its authors had just copied and pasted names of officials from the Kremlins website and from the Forbes list of Russian billionaires (this much eventually was confirmed by the administration) without much thought, just to demonstrate to the U.S. Congress that Trump is complying with the letter of a sanctions law he never wanted.
The purpose of the sanctions bill, which Trump signed reluctantly in August only when confronted with a nearly unanimous vote by the Senate, is to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin and his cronies for the concerted effort to influence American elections and undermine American democracy.
By Feb. 1, the law says, the U.S Congress is supposed to receive a list of Russian decision-makers closely affiliated with Putin. The idea was to name names of the most important players in and around the Kremlin. But what Treasury published to meet the deadline is, to say the least, perfunctory.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-team-puts-putin-victims-on-russian-oligarch-list?ref=home
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(10,081 posts)Now no sanctions, and a list - containing Putin targets. And Billionaires from Forbes magazine.
WTF!!
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