US Congress Building in Washington DCWASHINGTON, Jan 14Democrats in the United States did not support the Republican bill on sanctions against the Russian Federation, so as not to undermine the diplomatic efforts of President Joe Biden, and their own project of «hellish» sanctions is more symbolic and is associated with an unwillingness to look soft on Moscow, Robert Singh, professor of politics, told RIA Novosti from the University of London Birkbeck. A group of Democratic senators in the United States on Wednesday, on the day of negotiations between Russia and NATO on security guarantees, presented a bill providing for the introduction of large-scale anti-Russian sanctions in the event of an aggravation of the situation around Ukraine, including against the president, prime minister, and foreign minister and the Ministry of Defense. The next day, the Senate rejected a Nord Stream 2 sanctions bill proposed by Republican Ted Cruz.Volodin urged US congressmen not to threaten sanctions «I think there are many factors at play here. First of all, the Democrats do not want to be seen as «soft» on Russia in an election year. At the same time, they would prefer Cruz's hard bill to be rejected because they see it as a deliberate attempt to undermine the diplomatic options of the Biden administration,» said Singh, who said «no president likes congressional restrictions.» politics in the United States to the same — if not more — extent, to which it concerns geopolitics,» Singh concluded. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier called the proposal of US senators to impose new sanctions against Russia a nervous breakdown. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that Russia considers the US bill on new sanctions against Moscow as a continuation of Washington's destructive line. Russian economy due to possible US sanctions
