US prolongs sactions against russia over its “harmful activities abroad”

US President Joe Biden has extended an executive order for a year authorizing sanctions against russia over its "harmful activities abroad", the White House press service states.

The executive order alleges that moscow has engaged in "malicious activities" against the United States, including:

• efforts to undermine free and fair democratic elections and democratic institutions in the United States and its allies and partners;
• engaging in and facilitating malicious cyber activities against the United States and its allies and partners;
• encouraging and using transnational corruption to influence foreign governments;
• carrying out extraterritorial activities directed against dissidents or journalists;
• undermining security in countries and regions important to US national security;
• violation of established principles of international law, including respect for the territorial integrity of states – continuing to represent an unusual and extraordinary threat to national security, foreign policy, and the US economy.

"I extend for one year the state of emergency in the country, imposed in accordance with Executive Order 14024," the statement says.

On April 15, 2021, Biden announced a state of emergency in the field of national security through the russian federation. Then, according to him, the threat was caused by the harmful foreign activities of russia.

russian president vladimir putin told a State Council meeting that the sanctions imposed on russia would be in place for a long time. The state should choose long-term measures of sovereign development, he stressed.

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