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The publication of the new sanctions lists of the United States was not accidentally coincided with a joint statement of the four countries regarding the attempt on Sergei Skripal and his daughter. The press release of the Ministry of Finance has a link to this incident and a warning about cyber attacks that threaten the vital infrastructure of America, published on the same day by the Ministry of Internal Security and the FBI.

Although the administration of Trump had long been expected to fulfill the law, and she in every possible way moved and was engaged in wires, at the moment further inaction would be simply shameful. Washington was obliged to express solidarity with his closest ally. Teresa May in personal communication with the president managed to convince him of the involvement of Russia. As usual, Donald Trump still left a loophole to retreat. “It seems that the Russians are worth it,” he said after a telephone conversation with the British Prime Minister.

It is felt that it is increasingly difficult for him to brush off the persistent reports of his own special services, especially since he will soon meet with the special prosecutor Müller and such a position can bring additional suspicions on him.

There are two sanctions lists. The first list is the consequence of the executive decree (more precisely - amendments to the decree) signed by Barack Obama in December 2016. The document was the result of the US intelligence community report to the President on "harmful Russian activities in cyberspace." Donald Trump as a chosen president was also familiarized with the report, so in vain he now claims that Obama did nothing to protect America from cyber attacks. Trump does not go further than Obama in his measures.

The first list includes Evgeny Prigozhin and his company, including the "Troll Factory" - an Internet research agency, and trolls themselves in the amount of 12 people. These are the same persons who are listed in the indictment signed by the special prosecutor Robert Muller. But if Müller accuses them of fraud (therefore, President Putin in vain says that under Russian legislation their actions are non -casual), then they are subjected to sanctions for aggressive propaganda in social networks, which the US government regarded as presidential election 2016. For inclusion in the sanctions list, no evidence presented in court is required: the list is the Ministry of Finance on the basis of data provided by special services. As a sovereign state of the United States, it has the right to prohibit the entrance to its territory and access to its banking system to anyone without explaining reasons.

The second list was compiled in fulfillment of the Law "On Countering the opponents of America through sanctions" - the law, the adoption of which in July last year, the administration relyed. From the presidential veto he was saved by only the vast majority in both chambers of Congress. It was in accordance with this law that the government sent the Congress the notorious "Kremlin list". But there is no one of the defendants in the Kremlin list in the sanctions with the exception of one person - director of GRU Igor Korobov. From the Obamovsky list to Trumpovsky migrated three of his deputy. Two senior GRU officers, Sergey Afanasyev and Grigory Molchanov, apparently directly leading cyberovone, were added.

American intelligence believes that GRU wages this war, and the FSB helps him. The decree signed by Obama and remains in force, it is said that sanctions are introduced against those who "distort, change the data or cause illegal assignment of information with the aim or consequence of intervention or undermining of election processes or institutions." We are talking about hacking voter registration systems and voting. Such hacks or hacking attempts were recorded in the 21st state. Donald Trump won the elections thanks to the victory in the three states that Hillary Clinton considered “her own”, or rather, even in some districts of these states.

In addition, the Ministry of Finance ascribes the GRU to the creation and distribution of the Netpetya virus in 2016, which is called in the press release of "the most destructive and largest cybercation damage in history", which affected not only the United States, but also many countries of Europe and Asia. Finally, the Ministry of Finance recalls that two FSB officers were charged with hacking the personal data of the half -billion of Yahoo's personal data. One of the participants in this hacking, Karim Baratov, was arrested in Canada, extradited in the USA and pleaded guilty last month. Three of his accomplices - Alexei Belan, Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Sushin (the last two - FSB officers) - are declared the FBI on the wanted list and are in the list of the most dangerous cybercriminals. The accusations were brought in absentia to him in absentia.

A warning published on March 15 on the likely cyber attacks of Russia amazes its details. The American special services in open reports have not yet published such details. These are the same “passwords, addresses, turnouts”, which Vladimir Putin so longed to see, including codes and description of the methods of illegal invasion of computer networks of American infrastructure, including electrical and water supply, atomic energy, air communication and the production of vital goods. According to experts who composed him, Russian hackers are not trying to hack well -protected networks of the main management systems of these objects - they penetrate the servers of peripheral partners and subcontractors and already from there begin directed fitting with postal items. Such a message may be the summary of the engineer looking for a job: it is worth opening it, as Trojan begins to work, collecting logins and passwords that the computer owner uses.

Eight months ago, after a leakage of the secret report, The New York Times reported an attempt to hack - allegedly Russian hackers - the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant control system in Kansas. And in October last year, the Symantec cybersecurity company published a report on its observations of the actions of the Dragonfly hacker group, which experts consider Russian and which specializes in energy facilities.

In the conditions of an ongoing leapfrog in the office and the White House’s office (yesterday, at ten o’clock in the evening, it became known that Trump intends to dismiss his adviser to General McMaster’s national security) and a quick change in the mood of the expansive president, it is difficult to judge how decisions are now made by the executive authority and whether the procedure for their adoption exists. No one, including the president himself, cannot vouch that tomorrow he will not go back to the yard and will not declare that all this is a fake. But, perhaps, he still understands that the threat of infrastructure is not a subject for demagogy and political games. In any case, the US Minister of Energy Rick Perry, who took part in the hearings on the budgetary application of his department in the Committee of the Lower Chamber of the Congress on allocations, said that cyber attacks became formidable reality for American energy.