Punishment process

The United States imposes new sanctions against Russia in connection with cyber attacks on the US election system. This was reported in the Communny of the US Department of Finance.

Under the sanctions, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff Igor Korobov, his deputies Vladimir Alekseev, Sergey Gizunov and Igor Kostyukov, as well as hackers Yevgeny Bogachev and Alexei Belan. The sanctions were also imposed against five organizations, including the FSB, GRU, a special technological center and two other companies specializing in computer security.

In addition, the United States send 35 Russian diplomats from the country, the State Department reports . The Russians have 72 hours to leave America. Two Russian complexes in New York and Maryland will be closed.

"The department took these actions as part of complex measures in response to Russia's interference in the US elections and in connection with the persecution of our diplomats abroad," the report said. The State Department also noted that 28 American cultural centers were closed in Russia. In addition, the Russian authorities delay the issuance of permission to reconstruct the US Consulate General in St. Petersburg.

President Barack Obama said that all Americans should be concerned about the actions of Russia. "These embezzlement of data and the disclosure of information could be carried out only under the guidance of the highest levels of the Russian government," he said.

The American president emphasized that the United States is ready to take other measures against Russia. “These actions are not our final response to the aggressive behavior of Russia. We will continue to take various measures, some of which will not be published, at that time in the place that we will choose,” Obama said.

The US Ministry of Internal Security and the US Federal Bureau published a joint report on cyber attacks, which, according to departments, were organized by Russian intelligence. According to the report, attacks were aimed at critical infrastructure facilities, government institutions, political organizations, scientific institutions and universities and corporations. The goal of the hackers was to abduct the data.

On Wednesday, The Washington Post, citing some senior officials, said that the Obama administrationintends to impose new sanctions against Russia for intervention in the US presidential election. According to the sources of the publication, we can talk about both economic sanctions and measures at the diplomatic level, as well as operations in cyberspace, including secret ones.

At the beginning of last week, NBC, referring to a high -ranking source, reported that Obama, on the eve of the elections, contacted his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin on the so -called "red telephone", and in the conversation he first mentioned the words "armed conflict" . “International law, including laws applicable to an armed conflict, also apply to actions in cyberspace,” the Obama message said. “We will evaluate Russia's actions based on these standards.”

In October, the representative of the State Department of Elizabeth Trudeau said that in Russia, cases of pressure on American diplomats were significantly more frequent. This has been happening for two years, Trudeau noted. She spoke about cases of "oppression and surveillance of diplomatic workers in Moscow by representatives of security services and the road police."

The official representative of the State Department emphasized that the United States consider such actions unacceptable. “We are worried about how in the last two years we treated our diplomatic and consular employees. We have declared our fears at the highest level,” Trudeau said.