Senate sanctions on Russia due to domestic political battle in U.S.: Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has slammed the U.S. Senate for approving new sanctions on his country.
Speaking on Thursday during his annual call-in program, in which he takes questions from Russians across the country, Putin said there was no reason for the new sanctions.
He insisted the move was driven by the media frenzy in the United States over contact between President Trump's campaign team and Russian officials.
Putin also said Russia and the U.S. should take steps to improve their bilateral ties.
The U.S. Senate says the new measures, approved on Wednesday, were aimed at punishing Moscow for Russia's violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity, cyberattacks and interference in last year's U.S. presidential election.
US Senate delegation visits Moscow, comments
1. Various shots of start of press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bernard Sanders, US Congressman:
We all understand, whether we are Russian or American, that it is terribly important that we fight Islamic fundamentalism and international terrorism. And it is my hope, that within that struggle United States and Russian people become closer together.
3. Cutaway press
4. SOUNDBITE (English) James Saxton, US Congressman:
And so, for the American perspective, we have much to learn from the discussions of the experience of the Russian security forces, the Russian government and the Russian people. And, from our perspective, and from my perspective at least, I believe that will be a key ingredient in the discussions and whatever agreements come out of those discussions.
5. Wide shot press conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bernard Sanders, US Congressman:
It is so important that we see Russia and the United States and the United Nations and other countries working together vigorously to pressure democracy throughout the world for the end of terrorism and the abolition of nuclear weapons and biological weapons and chemical weapons.
7. Wide of press conference
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U-S congressmen visiting Moscow said on Monday co-operation between Russia and the U-S was important for the fight against international terror.
The Kremlin has shown strong support for the U-S-led battle against extremists.
The government has also long maintained that its more than two-year-old military campaign in Chechnya is aimed at international terrorists, not separatists seeking political independence.
Congressman James Saxton, who heads the House Special Oversight Panel on Terrorism, said America has much to learn from the experience of the Russian security forces.
Russian troops withdrew from Chechnya in 1996 after a humiliating war, leaving the republic with de facto independence.
Federal forces returned in 1999 after Chechnya-based rebels invaded a neighbouring Russian republic and after apartment bombings elsewhere in Russia blamed on Chechens killed 300 people.
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'Russian disinformation': US Senate keeps insisting on 'Moscow meddling' despite tech giants data
Russia's alleged reach on social media, during the US presidential campaign, was just a tiny fraction of all election-related content. That's according to lawyers from Google, Twitter and Facebook, who appeared at a U.S. Congress hearing about the issue. READ MORE:
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Secretary of State urges Senate to ratify new arms treaty
1. US Secretary of State Colin Powell sitting before Senate Foreign Relations committee
2. Cutaway of Committee Chairman Senator Biden
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colin Powell, US Secretary of State:
The senate's approval of the Moscow treaty will also make an important contribution to strengthening our new relationship. Mr Chairman, by deeply reducing our strategic nuclear warheads while preserving both Russia's and America's flexibility to meet unforeseen contingencies, the Moscow treaty will enhance the national security of both countries and I strongly recommend that the senate give its advice and consent to the ratification at the earliest possible date.
4. Cutaway of Senator Biden
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colin Powell, US Secretary of State:
So I think this is a good treaty as it serves both parties, both parties get an advantage from this treaty, both parties benefit from this treaty, but above all the world benefits, because no later than 31 December 2002 the levels that we now see will be reduced to no more than the limits shown in this treaty - at least a two-third reduction and nothing prevents either side from going lower should that be their choice.
6. Cutaway of Senator Feingold
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colin Powell, US Secretary of State:
What we're trying to do now is to make sure that both the Indians and Pakistanis understand that the United States is interested in them beyond this crisis. We want a good relationship with India on every aspect of that relationship: economic, trade cooperation, military cooperation - same thing with Pakistan, and we are anxious to get through this crisis and see a dialogue begin between the two sides so that we can start to move forward to find a solution to Kashmir, ultimately, they have to find the solution.
8. Cutaway of Senator Biden speaking to Powell
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Secretary of State Colin Powell urged the US Senate on Tuesday to swiftly ratify a new strategic arms reduction agreement with Russia, saying it enhances the national security of both countries.
Powell said the treaty, signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and President George W. Bush at their May summit in Moscow, marks a new era in relations between the two former Cold War enemies.
The Secretary of State, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the agreement, also known as the Moscow Treaty, shows both countries' commitment to make deep strategic, offensive reductions in their nuclear arsenals in a flexible and legally binding way.
The Senate Committee debates the treaty before sending it to the full Senate for a vote. By tradition, the secretary of state is the first member of any administration to testify in support of treaties it submits to the Senate.
The treaty calls for the United States and Russia to slash their nuclear arsenals by two-thirds over the next decade, to 1,700-2,200 deployed warheads each.
Secretary Powell also talked about the tensions between India and Pakistan, under questioning by Senator George Allen, who praised the Bush administration's diplomatic efforts to prevent a fourth war between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.
Powell said he plans to visit the two South Asian countries later this month, and stressed it was ultimately up to India and Pakistan to decide how to lower tensions and settle the question of the disputed Kashmir region.
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Senate Panel Probes Russian Election Meddling
(30 Mar 2017) Lawmakers heading the Senate intelligence committee focused squarely on Russia as they opened a hearing Thursday on attempts at undermining the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a deliberate campaign carefully constructed to undermine our election, Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner said.
Earlier Thursday, Putin again dismissed what he called endless and groundless accusations of Russian meddling in the U.S. election, describing them as part of the U.S. domestic political struggle.
He also said he is ready to meet with President Donald Trump at an upcoming arctic summit.
The hearing Thursday aims at addressing how the Kremlin allegedly uses technology to spread disinformation in the U.S. and Europe.
Eugene Rumer, the director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace warned that If the Kremlin can do this to the world's sole remaining global super power, imagine how other countries see it.
He said Russia's attempts to undermine elections globally is the new normal, adding that France and Germany's upcoming elections are likely targets.
Clint Watts from the Foreign Policy Research Institute Program on National Security agreed and said Russia hopes to achieve to key objectives through their meddling: the dissolution of the European Union and two, the breakup of NATO.
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LIVE: US Senate votes on expanded Russian and Iranian sanctions
The United States Senate holds a procedural vote on Bill 722, which relates to sanctions against Iran in Washington DC on Thursday, June 15.
On Wednesday, the US Senate voted in favour of Amendment 232 attached to Bill 722 that could expand sanctions against Russia; these new proposals would also set into law the sanctions against Moscow that are already in place, making them harder to repeal.
A total of 97 senators voted in favour of modifying the amendment on sanctions against Russia, with only two senators voting against the proposal.
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Here’s what’s in the Senate’s new Russia sanctions
The Senate overwhelmingly approved new sanctions against both Iran and Russia on Thursday. While the overall bill is aimed at Iran's missile program, an amendment expands sanctions on Russia for meddling in last year's election, and another amendment affects the president’s ability to roll back sanctions. Lisa Desjardins joins Judy Woodruff to take a closer look at the details.
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- The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked Dr. Jill Stein, the 2016 Green Party presidential candidate, for documents as part of its probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Committee Chair Richard Burr of North Carolina said on Monday that they are looking for potential “collusion with the Russians.” Among the actions that reportedly drew their attention was Stein’s attendance at a 2015 dinner in Moscow sponsored by Russian state-run TV network RT, where she sat at the same table as Russian President Vladimir Putin. Also at that table was Michael Flynn, who went on to become President Trump’s national security adviser and has since entered into a plea agreement with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian election interference. Flynn pleaded guilty to a single felony count of lying to the FBI about his conversations with Russia’s U.S. ambassador. We speak with Dr. Jill Stein, the 2016 presidential nominee for the Green Party.
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Senate Panel Probes Tillerson's Views on Russia
(11 Jan 2017) Donald Trump's choice for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, says it's a fair assumption Russian President Vladimir Putin knew about Moscow's meddling in America's 2016 presidential election.
Tillerson is telling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he's not privy to the detailed intelligence about Russia's hacking.
But he says he read the declassified report released last week about Russia's interference.
Tillerson said that Russia had no legal right to annex Crimea in 2014 and that he would have advised a more robust response than the Obama administration delivered.
The Exxon Mobil CEO is telling the panel that the U.S. should have told Russia that the land grab stops right here.
He said instead, the US sent weak or mixed signals with red lines, that turned into green lights.
He adds that If Russia acts with force, that requires a proportional show of force that there will be no more taking of territory.
Tillerson opposed the sanctions the U.S. levied on Moscow following its annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. The penalties cost the energy giant hundreds of millions of dollars.
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A bipartisan report from the Senate Intelligence Committee again underscores the level of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign and the fact Moscow's efforts have not stopped. Aired on 10/08/19.
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Veto-Proof Russia Sanctions Support To Hit Senate
On Sunday two U.S. senators said they believe that legislation that allows for new sanctions against Russia would pass with enough votes to override any potential veto by U.S. President Donald Trump.
In a bill that would limit any potential effort by Trump to try to lift sanctions against Moscow, Republicans and Democrats reached agreement on legislation that allows new sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea.
Senator John Thune, a member of the Republican leadership, said, I think (it) will pass probably overwhelmingly again in the Senate and with a veto-proof majority.
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Russia: Veselnitskaya ready to clarify Trump Jr meeting to US Senate
SOT Nataliya Veselnitskaya, lawyer (Russian): I'm ready to clarify the situation behind this mass hysteria – but only through lawyers or testifying in the Senate.
SOT, reporter (Russian): You're ready to go to Senate?
SOT, Nataliya Veselnitskaya, lawyer (Russian): Yes, I’m ready - if I’m guaranteed safety. Because today I have to think about my safety first of foremost, about the safety of my family and my four children. It’s been revealed that Mr. Browder and his team have been gathering information about my family; they tried to find out whether I’m married or not, whether I have children or not. They found photos of my house and sent them to Kyle Parker. He’s a famous man in the House of Representatives, who worked for Mr Browder for many years - and not for congressmen or Congress. They shared all these details with representatives of the State Department. I don’t know why they need this.
SOT, Nataliya Veselnitskaya, lawyer (Russian): I can only make assumptions here. I see today’s situation has been heating up for ten days or so – as a very well-orchestrated story concocted by one particular manipulator – and that is Mr. Browder. He is one of the greatest experts in the field of manipulating the mass media. I have no doubt that this whole information campaign is being spun, encouraged and organized by that very man – as revenge for his defeat in the 'Perezvon' company's case in the Southern district of New York. He wasn't able to convince the court with his lousy human tragedy that actually never happened, about the fate of a dead man - who he only learnt about after his death.
SOT, reporter (Russian): Could you please clarify the role of the General Prosecutor’s office?
SOT, Nataliya Veselnitskaya, lawyer (Russian): The General Prosecutor’s office of the Russian federation, when it comes to federal laws and the constitution, investigates criminal acts. In this situation, one shouldn’t seek to create a story and make something out of nothing. It’s not worth anything.
SOT, reporter (Russian): But initially all this was formulated the way like you and the Prosecutor…
SOT, Nataliya Veselnitskaya, lawyer (Russian): There is nothing about me and the General Prosecutor. Where am I and where is the prosecutor?
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Russian lawyer Nataliya Veselnitskaya confirmed that she was “ready to clarify the situation” around her meeting with the son of US President Donald Trump Donald Trump Jr, speaking to RT, in Moscow.
On June 9, last year, US President Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr, met with Natalia Veselnitskaya, alongside Trump's presidential campaign chief Paul Manafort and Donald Trump's son-in-law, now a Senior White House Advisor, Jared Kushner.
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Italian PM addresses Senate on Russia scandal
(24 Jul 2019) Italy's Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte addressed the country's Senate on Wednesday, to provide an update on a burgeoning scandal involving accusations of illegal funding from Russia for Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's League party.
Conte had to perform a high-wire act of both defending his government and distancing it from the murky dealings in Moscow by members of the League.
In what has become known as Russiagate in Italy, an Italian magazine revealed that aides to Salvini's party met with Russians in a Moscow hotel and allegedly struck an agreement to divert funds from an oil deal to the League ahead of EU elections.
Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation.
Salvini, has refused to provide any explanation to the Parliament insisting that he has never received one Ruble, Euro, Dollar or liter of vodka from Russia.
So instead Conte, Italy's technocrat Prime Minister, who often seems to be helplessly attempting to guide his bickering coalition of the populist Five-Star Movement and Salvini's League, said he would do it.
In a blatant snub to both Conte and the Senate, Salvini held his own meeting on public order at the Italian Interior Ministry on Wednesday, inviting in TV cameras and photographers to see him at work.
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Senate Panel Probes Tillerson's Views on Russia
Donald Trump's choice for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, says it's a fair assumption Russian President Vladimir Putin knew about Moscow's meddling in America's 2016 presidential election and labelled the country a danger. (Jan. 11)
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USA: Russia 'not good' under Putin, says new Senate candidate Romney
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Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney claimed that Russia is not good while under Putin, adding that it will not have a capacity of being a great nation, during a speech in Provo, Utah, Friday.
Romney spoke during the Utah County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner after announcing he would be running for the US Senate, representing Utah.
I’m not always with the president [Donald Trump] on what he might say or do, said Romney who added that nevertheless we can certainly work together.
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Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell hit back at his critics after being labeled soft on Russia for election interference. Jeremy Bash and Peter Baker react.
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Senate Overwhelmingly Approves Sanctions Against Russia For Meddling In The 2016 Election | TIME
The Republican-led Senate voted decisively to punish Moscow for interfering in the 2016 election by approving a wide-ranging sanctions package that targets key sectors of Russia's economy and individuals who carried out cyber attacks.
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