{"id":169573,"date":"2015-07-30T21:56:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T21:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=169573"},"modified":"2015-07-31T00:55:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T00:55:43","slug":"us-imposes-sanctions-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/us-imposes-sanctions-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"US imposes further sanctions on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The United States has imposed additional sanctions on Russia over the crisis in eastern Ukraine and Crimea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US Treasury Department&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)\u00a0on Thursday imposed sanctions on eleven more people and 15 more companies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today&#8217;s action underscores our resolve to maintain pressure on Russia for violating international law and fueling the conflict in eastern Ukraine,&#8221; acting OFAC Director John Smith said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration accuses Moscow of supporting and arming pro-Russian forces fighting in eastern Ukraine since last year. The Kremlin says the allegations are baseless.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the OFAC sanctioned affiliate companies of Russian oil giant Rosneft, as well as several organizations associated with one of the country\u2019s major banks \u2014 Vnesheconombank among others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/07\/30\/422590\/US-Russia-Ukraine-Crimea-sanctions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has imposed additional sanctions on Russia over the crisis in eastern Ukraine and Crimea. The US Treasury Department&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)\u00a0on Thursday imposed sanctions on eleven more people and 15 more companies. &#8220;Today&#8217;s action underscores our resolve to maintain pressure on Russia for violating international law and fueling the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}