The U.S. Congress proposes to impose sanctions against major Russian banks

Источник: The DairyNews
The U.S. Congress proposes to impose sanctions against major Russian banks that issue preferential loans to farmers of the Russian Federation, writes The DairyNews.

The text of the bill on a sharp tightening of U.S. sanctions against Russia, authored by Democrat Senator Robert Menendez (from New Jersey), was published on Tuesday on the website of the U.S. Congress.

The document is called "On strengthening NATO, combating international cybercrime and imposing additional sanctions on the Russian Federation" and envisages "tougher sanctions against the energy and financial sectors of Russia", its "oligarchs and state enterprises", the application of "sanctions against Russian sovereign debt".

In particular, U.S. senators propose to impose sanctions against Sberbank, VTB Bank, Gazprombank, Bank of Moscow, Rosselkhozbank, Promsvyazbank and Vnesheconombank (VEB).

According to TASS, the co-authors are Lindsey Graham (Republican, South Carolina), John McCain (Republican, Arizona), Cory Gardner (Republican, Colorado), Ben Cardin (Democrat, Maryland), Jeanne Shaheen (Democrat, New Hampshire). They describe their initiative as "comprehensive legislation that increases sanctions pressure on Russia."

According to the Ministry of agriculture the list of banks issuing preferential loans for agricultural sector includes Rosselkhozbank, Sberbank, VTB, Promsvyazbank, Bank "RUSSIA", ALFA-BANK, Raiffeisenbank, UniCredit Bank, Bank “Vozrozhdenie”, Gazprombank, Bank "AK BARS", Russian National Commercial Bank and others

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