The two compounds being closed down are recreational facilities owned by Russia’s government, one in Maryland and one in New York, the US said. The failed coup in Russia has turned Putin into a lame duck. The state department said they were being declared ‘persona non grata’, and they were given 72 hours to leave the country.
The 35 Russian diplomats being kicked out are intelligence operatives, Mr Obama said. Mr Obama said the hacking ‘could only have been directed by the highest levels of the Russian government’, a contention the US has used to suggest Russian president Vladimir Putin was personally involved.Īlthough the White House announced at the same time it was kicking out Russian officials and closing facilities, it said those were responses to other troubling Russian behaviour: harassment of US diplomats by Russian personnel and police. The Russians have stuck their the lame - duck session about China. Other individuals sanctioned include Alexei Belan and Yevgeny Bogachev, two Russian nationals who have been wanted by the FBI for cyber crimes for years. on Madam Speaker, Russia, as we've This has always been the major issue Mr. Russian President Vladimir Putin, spokes person Dmitri Peskov told reporters that there is. The president also sanctioned Lt Gen Korobov, the head of the GRU, and three of his deputies. She however did not provide details when this retaliation will start. The cyber security firm hired by the Democratic National Committee to investigate the theft of its emails determined earlier this year the hacking came from the Fancy Bear group, believed to be affiliated with the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency.
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Mr Obama ordered sanctions against two Russian intelligence services, the GRU and the FSB, plus companies which the US says support the GRU. He added: ‘Such activities have consequences.’ (New START), which he signed with Russia on April 8, 2010. ‘All Americans should be alarmed by Russia’s actions,’ Mr Obama said in a statement released while he was on holiday in Hawaii. PRESIDENT Barack Obama is by definition a lame duck, the American term used for a politician we cannot run for re-election, and thus has no stick with. But Congress currently sits in a lame duck session, one month after a significant election. President Obama will deliver his second-to-last State of the Union speech tonight, and expectations are extremely low: Without any elections left to.
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