Part 2. A Longstanding Friendship under Threat
... expanded sanctions against Russia after the Crimean Crisis and the subsequent War in Donbass. Later expansion took place after controversy erupted over the 2016 American Presidential Election and the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal. For the Russian-Indian arms trade, these two sets of sanctions are most important. In August 2017, the United States Congress passed the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), which implemented sanctions against Iran, North Korea, and Russia. President Donald Trump signed it into ...