{"id":1641503,"date":"2022-09-15T05:49:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T09:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641503"},"modified":"2022-09-15T05:50:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T09:50:01","slug":"us-senators-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-declare-russia-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-senators-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-declare-russia-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Declare Russia a \u2018State Sponsor of Terrorism\u2019"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fus-senators-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-declare-russia-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism%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=1641503&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--><p>Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Wednesday introduced a bi-partisan bill\u00a0that would designate the Russian government as a \u201cstate sponsor of terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It comes the same day that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-russia\">Russia<\/a> as a \u201cterrorist state\u201d after Russian forces fired a missile on the Karachunivske reservoir, which broke and flooded the president\u2019s home city,\u00a0Kryvyi Rih, forcing evacuations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin has crossed every line of civilized norms during the war in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a> and years before,\u201d\u00a0Graham said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgraham.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ID=FE52B63F-C004-47BF-B036-F122EB7864C3\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has engaged in state-sponsored assassinations, the Wagner group supported by Russia terrorizes the world, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-war-crimes\">war crimes<\/a> being committed in Ukraine on a daily basis shock the conscious,\u201d he continued, referring to the private Russian military, Wagner group, whose mercenaries have been accused of war crimes in Africa and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>President Vladimir Putin has always denied that the Wagner group is controlled by the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/09\/07\/wagner-africa-1200x800.jpeg\"><\/a> A truck of the Russian private military group Wagner in the looted Central African Army (FACA) base of Bangassou, which was attacked on Jan. 3, 2021, by rebels. Photo taken on Feb. 3, 2021. (Alexis Huguet\/AFP via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. senators said the \u201cRussia is a State Sponsor of Terrorism Act\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgraham.senate.gov\/public\/_cache\/files\/88d698d8-1c19-4d74-86cb-645c9db4ba3d\/russia-is-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-bill.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) would drastically curtail defense and technology exports to Russia, significantly reduce foreign assistance, and impose additional financial restrictions on Russia.<\/p>\n<p>It would also eliminate Russia\u2019s sovereign immunity in the eyes of U.S. courts, opening Russia\u2019s government to lawsuits and other civil claims from victims of its state-sponsored terrorism, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p> \u2018Game Changer\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Graham said that Ukrainians have been asking for Russia to be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism and that if enacted the bill will \u201cbe a game changer in how we deal with terrorists worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Putin\u2019s regime is not a State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Wednesday introduced a bi-partisan bill\u00a0that would designate the Russian government as a \u201cstate sponsor of terrorism.\u201d It comes the same day that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described Russia as a \u201cterrorist state\u201d after Russian forces fired a missile on the Karachunivske reservoir, which broke and flooded [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":618,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}