Trump extends sanctions against Russia for a year

This is a package of sanctions introduced by Joe Biden.

United States President Donald Trump has extended a package of sanctions against the Russian Federation for one year. The corresponding document appeared in the US Federal Register.

This is a package of sanctions introduced by previous US President Joe Biden.

The document is titled “Continuation of the State of Emergency in Connection with Specific Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation.”

According to it, on April 15, 2021, a state of emergency was declared to “combat the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States posed by the specified malign foreign activities of the government of the Russian Federation.”authorities say

This decree has been repeatedly supplemented and extended by the Biden administration. The last update of the document is dated April 10, 2025. It states that the state of emergency should remain in force after April 15 of this year.

As stated in the decree, sanctions against the Russian Federation were imposed, in particular, “for attempts to undermine the conduct of free and fair democratic elections and democratic institutions in the United States and its allies and partners; to engage in and facilitate malicious cyber activity against the United States and its allies and partners; to facilitate and use transnational corruption to influence foreign governments; to engage in extraterritorial activities directed against dissidents or journalists; to undermine security in countries and regions important to the national security of the United States; to violate generally accepted principles of international law, including respect for the territorial integrity of states, to continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.”

“For this reason, the state of emergency declared by Executive Order 14024, which was expanded in Executive Order 14066 and for which additional measures were taken in Executive Orders 14039, 14068, 14071, and 14114, should continue in effect beyond April 15, 2025,” the document states.

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