state department that handles sanctions. just before the state of the union a couple weeks ago, another legal deadline arrived for sanctions, they instead declared that there would be no new punishment for anybody buying russian military equipment, which had been the original idea behind those sanctions. state department announced that the existence of a u.s. law in this subject in their estimation, it was deterrence enough. those sanctions were not meant to detour russian behavior. they were meant to be punishment for past russian behavior for them attacking our election. but the state department decided to let it slide. trump administration was also required by law to produce by the end of january a detailed report identifying quote the most significant senior foreign political figures in russia. the way this list was supposed to be put together it was supposed to take into account high net worth so very, very