Getting Putin’s attention

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🗓️ 15 April 2021

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The United States imposes sweeping new sanctions against Russia. And, how former Trump allies are faring in the private job market.

On Thursday, the Biden administration imposed the first significant sanctions to target the Russian economy in several years. Shane Harris reports on the administration’s effort to punish the Kremlin for a cyberespionage campaign against the United States, and for its attempts to influence the 2020 presidential election.

Former Trump administration officials are struggling to find private sector jobs. Tory Newmyer reports on the former president’s allies who may be paying the price for aligning themselves with a leader mired in controversy.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
0:16.7	I'm Martin Powers.
0:20.7	It's Thursday, April 15th.
0:25.7	Today, why the U.S. is placing new sanctions on Russia, and the former Trump officials
0:31.7	still looking for jobs.
0:37.9	The Biden administration just announced a set of pretty significant sanctions against
0:43.6	the Russian government, principally for its interference in the 2020 elections, and some
0:51.7	other associated malign activities as they're described.
0:56.8	Shane Harris covers national security for the post.
0:59.9	This had been expected to be coming for some time, given particularly that we have a new
1:04.1	Democratic president, and the previous administration was mostly inclined to slap Russia on the
1:09.4	wrist for a lot of its malign activities.
1:12.2	But this is an effort, I think, by the Biden administration, both to punish the Russians
1:16.7	and make life difficult for them.
1:18.8	And I think it's fair to say also signal that there could be more, perhaps even more
1:23.9	severe or equally significant steps coming in the future if Russia continues to, as we
1:29.4	see it step out of line and threaten U.S. interests.
1:36.0	And just for context, when we're talking about the Russian hacking or election interference
1:40.8	in 2020, what exactly is the U.S. alleging that Russia did?
1:45.1	Russia, the intelligence community has said publicly.
1:48.0	They didn't exactly mount a repeat of 2016 where we saw them spreading a lot of propaganda
1:52.8	and importantly stealing Democratic Party and campaign emails and then leaking those
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