{"id":1342980,"date":"2022-02-25T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1342980"},"modified":"2022-02-25T16:07:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T21:07:40","slug":"u-s-to-sanction-vladimir-putin-and-minister-lavrov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-to-sanction-vladimir-putin-and-minister-lavrov\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to Sanction Vladimir Putin and Minister Lavrov"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-to-sanction-vladimir-putin-and-minister-lavrov%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1342980&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"PageBuilder-col-full PageBuilder-col PageBuilder-article\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"PageBuilder-col-full PageBuilder-col PageBuilder-article\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"PageBuilder-col-9 PageBuilder-col PageBuilder-article\">\n<div class=\"RenderKeyPoints-keyPoints\" id=\"RegularArticle-KeyPoints-4\" data-test=\"keyPoints-1\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-keyPoints-4-1\">\n<div class=\"RenderKeyPoints-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"RenderKeyPoints-list\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<ul>\n<li>The United States will impose individual sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, following similar sanctions announced Friday by the United Kingdom and the European Union.<\/li>\n<li>Putin and Lavrov are the highest ranking officials to be sanctioned by the United States in response to Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s unclear how much individual sanctions against Putin will accomplish, however. Putin publicly claims his salary of about $140,000 is his only source of income.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleBody-articleBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-107020497\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbedCaption\">Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs an annual extended meeting of the Board of the Russian Interior Ministry, in Moscow, Russia, on February 17, 2022.<\/div>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbedCredit\">Alexey Nikolsky | AFP | Getty Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The United States will impose a slate of sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, following similar sanctions announced Friday by the United Kingdom and the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Putin and Lavrov join a growing list of elite Russian government officials who have been sanctioned by the United States in response to Russia&#8217;s actions in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Twice this week, the United States has announced new sanctions against Russia&#8217;s largest banks and its sovereign debt, cutting them off from the U.S. banking system.<\/p>\n<p>Russia launched an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on Wednesday, sending tens of thousands of Russian troops into dozens of Ukrainian cities with the apparent aim of capturing Ukraine&#8217;s capital, Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>In the weeks leading up to the invasion, the Biden administration said the threat of sever sanctions were intended to serve as a deterrent to Putin.<\/p>\n<p>But that strategy failed this week, and since then the White House has shifted its message to focus on the punitive impact of sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear how much individual sanctions against Putin will accomplish, however.<\/p>\n<p>Putin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1594989\/vladimir-putins-financial-disclosure-claims-little-wealth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publicly claims his salary of roughly $140,000 as his only source of income,<\/a>\u00a0and lists his assets as two apartments and a few vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, Putin lives in a palatial home larger than Buckingham Palace, and has been photographed <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/headlines\/2012\/06\/putins-extravagant-700000-watch-collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">repeatedly wearing watches<\/a> that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Experts and former Kremlin insiders believe Putin is worth\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5934092\/navalny-putin-palace-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">billions of dollars<\/a>, and that he uses the global shadow banking system to hide his money.<\/p>\n<p>Putin also appears to control assets in Europe, according to the Pandora Papers investigation, published in Oct. 2021. The leaked documents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/interactive\/2021\/putin-monaco-luxury-apartment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed a $4.1 million apartment in Monaco<\/a> that was owned by a Russian woman who did not have any apparent source of income, but who had been romantically linked to Putin for years.<\/p>\n<p>That same woman, Svetlana Krivonogikh, was also listed as the registered owner of a shell company in 2010 that was in turn one of the major shareholders in a Russian state-linked bank that was sanctioned by the United States in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions against Putin will be welcome news to Ukrainian diplomats in in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova said Friday that sanctions against Putin &#8220;would be the right thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Markarova, who is the former Minister of Finance, welcomed the European Union&#8217;s decision to sanction Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.<\/p>\n<p>Markarova also said that Kyiv was grateful for the sanctions announced Thursday by the\u00a0Biden\u00a0administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was very happy to see the sanctions against major Russian banks. 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