Apr. 17—MOSCOW — Rep. Dusty Johnson was sanctioned by the Russian authorities late final week, one thing Johnson stated he considers an honor.
“Putin sanctioned me in the present day. I am going to think about it a badge of honor,” Johnson stated in a Wednesday night tweet.
The sanctions had been introduced by the International Ministry of the Russian Federation on April 13 as a retaliation in opposition to 398 U.S. Representatives who lately handed sanctions in opposition to 328 members of the state’s Duma — the decrease home of Russia’s Federal Meeting.
Different members of the Duma had beforehand been blacklisted, or banned from getting into america.
Russia’s sanctions in opposition to American lawmakers got here particularly in response to a spherical of
American sanctions that had been handed on March 24,
the place the White Home positioned restrictions on over 400 Russian people and entities that “gasoline Putin’s warfare machine.”
American sanctions got here as President Joe Biden traveled to Europe to satisfy with G7 leaders and different European Union member-states to debate initiatives to share details about and coordinate responses to “evasive measures supposed to undercut the effectiveness and affect of our joint sanctions actions.”
“Collectively, we is not going to enable sanctions evasion or backfilling,” an announcement issued by the White Home reads. “As a part of this effort, we may also have interaction different governments on adopting sanctions much like these already imposed by the G7 and different companions.”
Actions from america
additionally included efforts to destabilize Russia’s Central Financial institution
by limiting their potential to entry and make the most of worldwide reserves, together with gold, to assist their crumbling economic system.
Since their invasion of Ukraine in February, the worth of the ruble dropped by as a lot as 40% when in comparison with the American greenback —
although it is since recovered to pre-invasion values
since Russia transitioned to utilizing a gold-based customary.
It is unclear how Russia decided who to sanction and who to spare, as some Democrats and Republicans alike had been left off the Kremlin’s listing.
A full listing of which lawmakers had been sanctioned may be discovered
on the Russian International Ministry’s web site.