WASHINGTON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – President Barack
Obama on Thursday ordered a series of diplomatic and economic sanctions against Russia over the hacking which US officials say was aimed at disrupting the November election.
Below is a list of the key points outlined by the US government in a
raft of documents from various agencies. T
Obama added that the US may take “a variety” of additional actions,
“some of which will not be publicized.”
– Sanctioned entities –
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Economic sanctions will hit Russia’s two main intelligence
agencies — the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and the Federal Security Service (FSB) — freezing their assets and blocking them from the US financial system.
Similar sanctions will be slapped on three other entities:
— the Special Technology Center in St. Petersburg, said to have
assisted the GRU in intelligence operations;
— Zorsecurity, also known as Esage Lab, which provides technical
research;
— the Professional Association of Designers of Data Processing
Systems, a group which provides training to the GRU.
– Sanctioned individuals –
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— Current GRU chief Igor Valentinovich Korobov
— Deputy GRU chief Sergey Aleksandrovich Gizunov
— First deputy GRU chiefs Igor Olegovich Kostyukov and Vladimir
Stepanovich Alexseyev.
A separate US Treasury order sanctions two Russian individuals for
hacking into US banks, corporations, universities and other organizations:
— Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, accused of stealing over $100
million from computer hacking