New sanctions: US expelled Russian diplomats because of hacker attacks

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On Thursday afternoon, the White House administration announced a specific list of sanctions that were imposed against Russia because of hacker attacks.

According to the NY Times, the head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces (GRU) Igor Korobov, his deputies Vladimir Alekseev, Sergey Gizunov and Igor Kostyukov, and also hackers Alexey Belan and Evgeny Bogachev fell under the sanctions ..

However, according to the NY Times, GRU employees rarely travel to the United States, it is unlikely that they keep their property abroad, so these measures are more likely to be rather symbolic.

On According to a Reuters source, the US also ordered 35 Russian diplomats to leave the country within 72 hours.

In addition, the sanctions were imposed on several companies: CRS Security, the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization “Professional Association of Informatics Systems Designers” (APO software KSI) and the Special Technological Center company.

Also, two Russian-owned facilities in the states of Maryland and New York, which, according to Obama, were used by Russians for intelligence purposes, will be closed.

In a statement from Barack Obama, which опубликовано the White House website also states that the sanctions were a forced response to Russia's aggressive behavior. It is not only about hacker attacks, but also about the pursuit of American dilomats in Russia.

Barack Obama also said that information about Russian hacker attacks will be sent to all US intelligence agencies in order to prevent such attempts in the future.

Donald Trump offered the United States and Russia to stop arguing over the attacks of Russian hackers on the computers of the Democratic Party, saying that "we need to move on."

Answering the question whether the US should impose sanctions on Russia, Trump said: “I think we need to move on. I think computers have seriously complicated our lives. The computer era itself has led us to a place where no one knows exactly what is happening. ”

The introduction of new sanctions commented in Moscow.

A spokesman for the Russian president said that Moscow was rejecting all allegations of hacking into the party’s servers, as well as vowing that retaliation would be introduced soon, writes The Washington Post.

The Commissioner of the Russian Foreign Ministry for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, Konstantin Dolgov, stated:Interfax“that new sanctions will hinder the restoration of relations between countries. “Any anti-Russian sanctions are futile and counterproductive,” he said. “I can only reconfirm that the sanctions hysteria demonstrates a complete lack of orientation in the space of the outgoing US administration,” the diplomat emphasized. “Such unilateral steps are intended to damage relations and complicate their restoration in the future,” he said.

Recall that, according to US intelligence, it was Russia that organized the US hacker attacks in order to prevent the election of Hillary Clinton and undermine the credibility of the US electoral system. The CIA had previously stated that Russian intelligence services had transmitted information to the sites of WikiLeaks and DCLeaks.

The scandal began in October, when the Obama administration accused Russia of conducting a large-scale campaign to interfere in the elections. It was also about hacking computers in the National Committee of the US Democratic Party.

Already after the election, December 10 The Washington Post reported on the secret CIA report: it said that Russia had intervened in the electoral process to help trump win.

December 16 Barack Obama said that the hacker attacks stopped after he asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop them, threatening that serious consequences await Russia if the attacks do not stop.

According to Senator Lindsay Graham, the new sanctions will be personally affected by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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