US Capitol Building in Washington DCMOSCOW, Jan 20The probability of adoption in the United States of the draft sanctions «Act on holding Putin accountable» is high, the countries are step by step moving towards breaking off diplomatic relations, said Associate Professor of the Department of International Security at the Faculty of World Politics of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov Alexey Fenenko. Republican Jim Banks presented a new draft of sanctions against Russia, follows from the information on the website of the US Congress. It is noted that the project was submitted on January 19. Another 38 congressmen supported Banks' initiative. The text of the project has not been officially published yet.The deputy explained what the new US sanctions against Russia could lead to. At the same time, the Washington Post newspaper writes that the project is called the «Act on Holding Putin Accountable», it personally mentions Russian President Vladimir Putin, all members of the Russian Cabinet of Ministers, as well as businessmen Dmitry Rybolovlev, Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, Mikhail Gutseriev and Alexander Vinokurov, Olympic champion and head of the National Media Group Alina Kabaeva, head of the Russian Investigative Committee Bastrykin, director of the FSB Bortnikov, head of the National Guard Zolotov, presidential secretary Peskov, Moscow Mayor Sobyanin and others. In addition, the draft implies a ban on transactions with the state debt of the Russian Federation, provides for the recognition of Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. According to the media, the project also involves stopping spending on a dialogue on strategic stability while Crimea is Russian, and taking action against Nord Stream 2, including organizations associated with it and their shareholders. «I will immediately answer this question for you: we will gradually, step by step we are moving towards a complete severance of relations with the United States. Maybe even diplomatically. Why haven't they been broken off yet? This is a process of more than one year,» Fenenko told RIA Novosti. stood in the State Duma of the Russian Federation after the adoption of the «Magnitsky Act» by the United States at the end of 2012.The project of US sanctions against Russia is offensive to the Crimeans, the expert said «So I do not exclude that sooner or later we will come to deny each other's right to exist as such and within the current borders, and declaring each other's elites illegal. As a result, we will return to the state , which we had between 1917 and 1933, when the USSR and the USA did not have diplomatic relations and simply did not recognize each other, «he added. According to Fenenko, the break in diplomatic relations does not mean war at all.» The Soviet Union did not have diplomatic relations after 1967. The United States and we also did not have from 1917 to 1933. Another thing is that then sooner or later the question will arise about the procedure for visiting New York by Russian UN diplomats, and in the future — the fate of the United Nations, » — the source of the agency explained. Speaking about how likely it is that this draft sanctions will be adopted, Fenenko noted that the probability is high. e4e2e5a36b7d8d7.jpg» />The expert called the main reason for the sanctions against Nord Stream 2″ «Great (probability). Even if not in the near future, albeit in a truncated form, but most likely they will be accepted. I don't remember a single project (sanctions) for 10- 15 years past for the Americans to reject it. And secondly, preparations for this project have begun with too much fanfare. If they did not plan to accept it, it was some kind of private initiative of congressmen, which we would not have known much about And the fact that the world media is talking about this is already an indicator,» the expert emphasized. In December 2012, the United States adopted the Magnitsky Act on sanctions against Russians involved, according to the American authorities, in human rights violations. The Russian authorities, in turn, have repeatedly stated that the politicization of the «Magnitsky case» is inadmissible. Subsequently, the «Magnitsky Act» was given the status of a global law, sanctions under it should not be limited to citizens of the Russian Federation, but should be applied to all countries whose citizens violate, in the opinion of the United States, human rights. Later, similar lists were introduced by a number of EU countries.
