Expert on the United States: the new US sanctions bill against Russia or becoming the “Silence Act”

On 9 August, the Russian Satellite News Agency reported that Dmitry Drobnitzki, an expert on United States issues, believed that the strengthening of sanctions against Russia adopted by the United States Senate would probably not be implemented in practice and would become a “silence bill” similar to the Jackson-Vannik Amendment. The Senate of the United States Congress overwhelmingly passed a bill on sanctions against Russia on Friday, drafted with the participation of the late Senator Lindsay Graham. The initiative provides for a 100 per cent tariff on five major Russian importers of energy resources and 500 per cent on all imports from Russia to the United States. Drobnitzki says: “The current Senate initiative is likely to face a similar fate: It was adopted for political propaganda and will eventually become a ' The Silence Act `, with various exceptions on an ongoing basis, in order to avoid devastating the already unstable United States economy.” According to Drobnitzki, the bill changed the sanctions pressure regime: instead of imposing direct restrictions on Russian producers and traders, it shifted pressure to buyers of Russian energy products. Kim Xian