Fact Sheet: United States Imposes Additional Costs on Russia for the Poisoning of Aleksey Navalny

FACT SHEET

CBW ACT SANCTIONS

Description of Sanctions: Pursuant to the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (the CBW Act), the United States will impose a second round of sanctions on the Russian Federation over its use of a “Novichok” nerve agent in the August 2020 poisoning of Russian opposition figure Aleksey Navalny.

New sanctions imposed today under the CBW Act include:

1. Restrictions on the permanent imports of certain Russian firearms. New and pending permit applications for the permanent importation of firearms and ammunition manufactured or located in Russia will be subject to a policy of denial.
2. Additional Department of Commerce export restrictions on nuclear and missile-related goods and technology pursuant to the Export Control Reform Act of 2018.

These sanctions also include a continuation of measures imposed on March 2, 2021, as well as in 2018 and 2019 in response to the poisoning of Sergey Skripal and his daughter, along with the waivers associated with these sanctions.  For information about the waivers, please see 86 FR 14804 and 84 FR 44671.

Duration and Conditions for Removal

These latest sanctions on Russia pursuant to the CBW Act will take effect upon the publication of a Federal Register notice expected on September 7, 2021, and they will remain in place for a minimum of 12 months. The sanctions can only be lifted after a 12-month period if the Executive Branch determines and certifies to Congress that Russia has met several conditions described in the CBW Act, 22 U.S.C. 5605(c), including (1) providing reliable assurances that it will not use chemical weapons in violation of international law, (2) it is not making preparations to use chemical weapons in the future, (3) it is willing to allow international inspectors to verify those assurances, and (4) it is making restitution to Mr. Navalny.

ACTIONS UNDER E.O.s 13382 AND 14024

Today, the Departments of State and the Treasury also designated numerous individuals and entities, including operatives involved in poisoning Mr. Navalny and entities that have developed Russia’s chemical weapons capabilities.  Together with the measures imposed under the CBW Act, these actions send a clear message that there will be accountability for the use of chemical weapons.

THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE’S ACTIONS UNDER E.O. 14024

Pursuant to the authorities in E.O. 14024 of April 15, 2021 (Blocking Property With Respect To Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation), today the Department of State designated two Russian Ministry of Defense scientific institutes:  the 27th Scientific Center and the 33rd Scientific Research and Testing Institute.  Both entities are being re-designated pursuant to Section 1(a)(i) of E.O. 14024 because they have been determined to operate or have operated in the defense and related materiel sector of the Russian Federation economy.  The Department of State previously designated both of these entities under E.O. 13382 of June 28, 2005 (Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters).

The 27th Scientific Center and the 33rd Scientific Research and Testing Institute have engaged in activities to develop Russia’s chemical weapons capabilities, including technologies for delivering such weapons.  The 33rd Scientific Research and Testing Institute stewards Russia’s Shikhany Chemical Proving Ground, where Russia conducts chemical weapons-related testing.  The 27th Scientific Center has been involved with Russian chemical weapons research and testing activities.

THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY’S ACTIONS UNDER E.O. 13382 AND E.O. 14024

On March 2, 2021, the Department of State designated Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) pursuant to E.O. 13382 for its role in the Navalny poisoning and for possessing a Novichok chemical weapon.  Today, pursuant to E.O. 13382, Treasury designated the FSB Criminalistics Institute; Vladimir Bogdanov, who is Chief of the FSB’s Special Technology Center; Stanislav Makshakov, who is reportedly an FSB official who was in frequent communication and coordination with FSB leadership and individuals involved in Navalny’s poisoning around the time of the attack; Konstantin Kudryavtsev, who is an FSB Criminalistics Institute operative who is reported to have been a part of the core FSB group that was involved in Navalny’s poisoning; Alexey Alexandrov and Ivan Osipov, who are FSB Criminalistics Institute operatives that have been reported as two of the main perpetrators of the attack on Navalny; Vladimir Panyaev, who is an FSB operative who was reported to have tailed Navalny on several occasions prior to the poisoning; and Aleksey Sedov, Chief of the FSB’s Service for the Protection of the Constitutional System and the Fight against Terrorism, whose operatives have been reported to have coordinated with the members of the FSB unit involved in the Navalny poisoning.

Under E.O. 14024, Treasury also designated Kirill Vasiliev, who is the Director of the FSB Criminalistics Institute.  Vasiliev was in communication with FSB Criminalistics Institute Deputy Director Stanislav Makshakov in the months preceding Navalny’s poisoning, specifically during an incident believed to have been a previous poisoning attempt against Navalny.  Additionally, Treasury also designated Artur Zhirov and the State Institute for Experimental Military Medicine (GNII VM), which is a scientific research organization specializing in security and defense that operates under the ultimate authority of the Russian Ministry of Defense, and which has collaborated with the 27th Scientific Center and the 33rd Scientific Research and Testing Institute.  Zhirov is the former director of the 27th Scientific Center and a chemical weapons expert.

The individuals targeted today either participated in Russia’s operation to assassinate or surveil Navalny. Additional information on Treasury’s action is available at:  https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0328.

Here is the money quote from Brandon Smith’s article:

It needs to be understood that the US was NEVER going to “win” the war in Afghanistan. An orthodox military strategy is rarely going to succeed against a long term insurgency using asymmetric tactics. It does not matter how technologically advanced that military might be; it does not matter how many planes, tanks, and drones they might have. Eventually over time they WILL lose by pure attrition in the face of a guerrilla resistance.

Looks at the strategy that brought the US military to its knees. Or I should say, look at the government’s policies and woke military leadership that brought this historical debacle to Afghanistan. Never mind the image of the United States that our enemies now have. Never mind the conspiracy theories and Monday morning quarterbacks’ pontifications concerning this tragedy.

But do keep in mind that we can and will use this same strategy to bring down the Deep State. The only questions are when, how bloody and if we have the time before our country is attacked by a foreign power.

And here is his closing admonition:

I can’t predict what the exact event will be, but it seems obvious that the establishment is making preparations for another crisis in the near term. The abrupt end of the occupation of Afghanistan is a warning sign of more pressing threats ahead.

David DeGerolamo

Who would have known that Mike Wallace would be a major contributor to 1984 become reality?

David DeGerolamo

h/t Keith Henson

All that matters is nation building in order to line their pockets and destroy our Republic.

Although Lara Logan states that “we are looking at the collapse of the US will”, we are looking at the destruction of what was a moral Republic as most people here sit back and do nothing. Are you tired of hearing people say things will get better because they can’t get worse? Let me state unequivalently that they can get worse and they can get much worse.

So you have a choice: you can ignore this as doom and gloom propaganda OR you can prepare to start participating in the war that has already started in this country. And those options both presuppose that Russia, China, North Korea and/or Iran will not attack our country. Because that eventuality will show the consequences of a woke military, corrupt government and intelligence agencies whose agenda is the destruction of the country.

David DeGerolamo

Arkansas has one of the lowest COVID vaccination rates in the country, and the Delta variant is causing a surge of new cases in the state. We embedded at a hospital in Little Rock, where doctors say the threat of death isn’t enough to convince people to get vaccinated.

While the above video is good for a few laughs, Biden is having the last laugh at the expense of our Republic. I know he is only a puppet. I know that we must hold every last one of these traitors accountable. I know that he is becoming rich for being the face of the Deep State.

BUT…

People are dying from “vaccinations”, military policy, fiscal policy and border security. Every. Single. Day.

David DeGerolamo

h/t Tom Rhyne

I keep hammering on this, but we must grasp that the Left truly believes themselves to be made from finer clay.  Better, smarter, more noble, with only the purest of intentions:

Imagine, gentle readers, your sociopolitical beliefs are infallible.  Whatever social or political policy you hold, it cannot possibly be wrong.  Whatever you attempt, it cannot possibly fail, because you and those of like mind, unlike all human beings before you, are intellectually and morally superior. 

You know this because you and all of like mind agree on this, and everything else, and you don’t listen to lesser beings. What would be the point? 

You know because when you and those of like mind compare your obvious superiority, your evolved perfection, to lesser beings—“Deplorables” or “Normals” if you will—the contrast is so stark as to be self-evident, and you make sure no one can avoid your assessment of your exaltation. 

Your understanding of human nature and of all things affecting the human condition is unsurpassed in all of history. 

You, unlike every terribly flawed human being before you—and of course contemporaries that have not reached your pinnacle of perfection—are solely fit to establish uptopia, heaven on Earth, once and for all.

So, as they enthusiastically prepare for and Jones at having soldiers go door to door to shoot you, either with bullets or the Jab, remember:

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