Joe Biden’s U.S. government on Thursday announced a series of financial sanctions against Russia and the expulsion of ten Russian diplomats, in response to cyber attacks and interference in the 2020 presidential election attributed to Moscow.
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The President of the United States has signed a decree which will make it possible to punish again Russia, so as to engender “strategic and economic consequences”, “if it continues or promotes an escalation of its actions of international destabilization”, warned the White House in a statement.