The big question is whether congresspeople should spend their political capital on promoting a bill that needs so many amendments at a time when Russia as a topic for discussion has lost much of its former appeal
The DASKA (Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act) bill has once again come under scrutiny. It was approved by the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. In theory, the sanctions bill “from hell” could be effectively enacted in the future. In reality, there are a number...
... sanctions was the determination by the Director of National Intelligence that Russia had interfered in the US elections. Therefore, sanctions were supposed to be a response to interference and not a preventive measure. However, as was the case with the DASKAA, debt restrictions were included in a long list of much stricter measures, ranging from blocking Russian government assets to restrictions against major Russian banks and energy companies. An important component of DETER was the condition for lifting ...
... broad coalition.[
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] Consolidating a sanctions coalition is of particular importance under the present circumstances, given that Russia has been rather successful in adapting to sanctions and generally managed to reduce their sting.
Ivan Timofeev:
DASKAA and the New Anti-Russia Sanctions: Does the US Want Self-Isolation?
The requirement of close coordination with allies and partners is a long-standing tradition of US laws on sanctions. For example, efforts to bring pressure to bear on Iran were ...
... of 1991 (PL 102-182).
Ivan Timofeev:
Fighting Sanctions: From Legislation to Strategy
The US Department of State preempted DASKAA’s approval by announcing that PL 102-182 would be in use starting in August 2018. The law stipulates that consultations ... ... be imposed on them, including limitation of aid programs (irrelevant for Russia), limitation of arms sales (irrelevant), refusal to issue credit (likely to affect the financial sector, although the market has absorbed the damage from the existing financial ...
