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It became known about the preparation of the United States of new sanctions against Russia

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The United States is preparing new sanctions against Russia, including those related to cyber attacks. Bloomberg writes about it.

As the agency notes, we are talking about measures in connection with the hacking of SolarWinds company using Orion software, which is accused of “Russian hackers”. According to a senior US administration official, the sanctions will be announced within a few weeks.

Politico correspondent in the White House Natasha Bertrand reported similar information on her Twitter page. “Additional measures will be announced shortly in response to [hacking] SolarWinds and so on,” she wrote.

NBC News also reports that the US is planning a series of sanctions. As it became known to the TV channel, one of the employees of the administration at a briefing for journalists noted that the restrictions imposed on March 2 were only the first step of the White House.

Earlier on March 2, the United States announced the imposition of sanctions against seven high-ranking officials of Russia due to the situation with Alexei Navalny (founder of the Anti-Corruption Fund, included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent) . Before that, the EU imposed sanctions on the Navalny case.

On February 2, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow replaced Navalny's suspended sentence with a real one for violating the conditions for observing the probationary period in the Yves Rocher case. He will stay in the colony for 2 years and 6 months, taking into account the year spent under house arrest during the preliminary investigation. The European Court of Human Rights has demanded that the Russian government release the oppositionist from prison as an interim measure. The Russian Foreign Ministry called the ECHR ruling an attempt to put pressure on Russia.

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