russia's state owned energy giant gazprom and is a very close friend of lattimer putin and then there is sulaiman kerry for whose family controls russia's largest gold producer with a net worth of six point four billion dollars he was ranked by forbes magazine as russia's twentieth wealthiest businessmen our rate to these sanctions are growing all the way to the top and to talk more about what just happened we can go to washington to do naaman talk to us a little bit more alexandra about these sanctions. the sanctions imposed today. that people targeted by the same shoes have in you as your addictions and bars american americans from doing business with them and the thinking behind it is that the best way to punish putin's aggressive behavior is to go after people close to him but the problem is that we cannot say whether the same sions can have an effect because they're not coming as a surprise there was a list of potential targets published by the you asked treasury department's months ago so people on this list had time to prepare or maybe to move their essence out of reach of you ass western

state owned energy giant gas problem and is a very close friend to vladimir putin and then there is sulaiman caramel whose family controls russia's largest gold producer with a net worth of six point four billion dollars he was ranked by forbes magazine as russia's twentieth wealthiest businessman all right to join us now joining us now on this breaking development out of washington is alexander fun and nominee alexander very good to see you are these measures intended to punish russia for its meddling in the u.s. election. well the officials who briefed us on this saying sions told us that they believe that that's the best way to punish putin's aggressive behavior around the world and they explicitly mentioned russia's annexation of crimea and the situation in eastern ukraine russia's support of the regime and russia's cyber activities meaning russia's alleged meddling in you as election but this meddling is apparently not the only reason and the you asked officials told us that they think that it's the best way to get put in attention to go after people close to him as you mentioned his so

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